We are addressing these issues by developing a proxy based system that replaces the exisiting http client server system with a client-intelligent proxy- intelligent server system, with the clients, proxies and servers constituting a cooperative multiagent system that provide active transcoding, information retrieval, personalization and disconnected management. W3IQ proxy splits information access into a set of asynchronous transaction like operations and also maintains state information while disconnections occur. W3IQ proxy allows the user to specify requests as queries, rather than explicit URLs and takes up the burden of locating the right information on behalf of the user. Thus the W3IQ agent acts as an information broker and a recommender.

The system will also support other interaction formats. For example, the users could ask for monitoring changes in certain web pages, ask to be informed whenever new movies are played at his theatre of choice and also be sent a review of the movie and its rating.

We are also working on Automatic Profile Development by monitoring the ratings of users and dynamically forming groups of users with similar interests within a proxy and also across all the peer proxies. These groups get updated (new groups are created, existing groups are merged, users moved between the groups) as and when more content is rated.