Sense: a Service Navigation System linked to a real-time advertising distribution service

Sense: A Service Navigation System is an agent system supporting interaction between the end user (consumer) and service provider (producer) in an open, distributed object environment. It navigates among the latest multimedia network services based on the end user's wishes, profile and situations. Its service navigation strategy is a key feature of Sense; it navigates based not merely on pre-registered user information, but taking into consideration the history of service selection by the user, advertising information from the service provider and other clues. Moreover, Sense makes use of object services available in the open distributed processing environment, such as traders and service type repositories, enabling it to take the initiative in proposing the latest multimedia network services.