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Descripcion: Managing a personal computer is a tiring task. Users have to deal with lots of installed applications and their related documents. In order to do that, little help is provided. Operating systems offer a limited support to manage these programs. Provided help is mainly related with the tasks of installing and uninstalling the programs and avoiding collisions in the access to system resources. Programs do not usually offer additional assistance to handle documents because they are oriented to specific formats and do not allow integrated solutions over document sets.

Information overload is one of the key points of this problem. There are many applications that produce information in a computer, such as e-mail, chat programs, word processors or bookmarks. The user has to deal with that huge amount of information through direct interface commands which eventually causes user's apathy. Ideally, programs should facilitate user's tasks guided by his preferences (e.g. about categorizing, naming or formats) and fulfill high level orders (e.g. move text documents to the appropiate folders or delete spam e-mail). When designing such an assistant system other features should be borne in mind:
- Learning capabilities. The system has to increase its knowledge about the user with the service. This information should improve system performance.
- Scalability and customizability. Required functionality and information sources can be changed or added with the ongoing work. It would be advisable that these tasks could be performed without disrupting the usual work.
- Minimize user's annoyance. The system must not increase user's work. It should avoid misclassifications and make the essential interactions with the user.

Summarising, the goal is to construct a scalable system that allows the user manages his documents with high level features. In a first step, the system works only with e-mail and documents in the hard disk. The proposed advanced features are categorizing documents and moving them to appropiate folders according user's preferences. This work has to be done minimizing user's annoyance. To obtain this, the system has to avoid classification mistakes and interact with the user only when it is strictly needed.

Descripcion del sistema

Instancias de entidades de meta-modelo

Entidad	Entidad del meta-modelo	Documentacion
Classifier	Descripcion Agente
Email Organizer	Descripcion Agente
HD Document Organizer	Descripcion Agente
System Agent	Descripcion Agente
User Speaker	Descripcion Agente
Classify Coordination	Descripcion Coordinacion
Email Coordination	Descripcion Coordinacion
System Coordination	Descripcion Coordinacion
User Coordination	Descripcion Coordinacion
PC Environment	Descripcion Entorno
Functional Description	Descripcion Funcional
PC Management	Descripcion Organizacion

Classifier (Descripcion Agente)

Propiedades:

agente	Classifier
estados intermedios	Give Document Category Give Document Category Mental Management
tareas asignadas	ClassifyDocument_TasksAndGoals
gestion del estado mental	Document Goal Management

Email Organizer (Descripcion Agente)

Propiedades:

agente	EmailOrganizer
estados intermedios	Classify Email Increase Classified Emails Make Email Classifiable Notify Incoming Email Place Email in Folder Classify Email Mental Management Increase Classified Emails Mental Management Make Email Classifiable Mental Management Notify Incoming Email Mental Management Place Email in Folder Mental Management
tareas asignadas	ClassifyEmail_TasksAndGoals MoveEmail_TasksAndGoals ManageEmail_TasksAndGoals
gestion del estado mental	Email Goal Management
Percepcion del agente	PC_Representation

HD Document Organizer (Descripcion Agente)

Propiedades:

agente	HDDocumentOrganizer
tareas asignadas	ManageHDDocuments_TasksAndGoals
Percepcion del agente	PC_Representation

System Agent (Descripcion Agente)

Propiedades:

agente	SystemAgent
estados intermedios	Add Requested Agents Remove Requested Agents Add Requested Agents Mental Management Remove Requested Agents Mental Management
tareas asignadas	AddAgent_TasksAndGoals RemoveAgent_TasksAndGoals
gestion del estado mental	Community Goal Management

User Speaker (Descripcion Agente)

Propiedades:

agente	UserSpeaker
estados intermedios	Attend User's Requests Attend User's Requests Mental Management
tareas asignadas	AddAgent_TasksAndGoals RemoveAgent_TasksAndGoals ManageEmail_TasksAndGoals ManageHDDocuments_TasksAndGoals
gestion del estado mental	Speaker Goal Management
Percepcion del agente	PC_Representation

Classify Coordination (Descripcion Coordinacion)

Propiedades:

Modelos de interaccion

ClassifyDocument_Interaction

Email Coordination (Descripcion Coordinacion)

Propiedades:

Modelos de interaccion

System Coordination (Descripcion Coordinacion)

Propiedades:

Modelos de interaccion

User Coordination (Descripcion Coordinacion)

Propiedades:

Modelos de interaccion

PC Environment (Descripcion Entorno)

Propiedades:

modelos de entorno

PC_Representation

Functional Description (Descripcion Funcional)

Propiedades:

casos de uso	Use_Cases_for_Personal_Assistants
descripcion objetivos	Goal_Breakdown Goals_and_Tasks Goals_and_Roles
descripcion de tareas	FIPA-Request_TasksAndGoals

PC Management (Descripcion Organizacion)

Propiedades:

Estructura	Personal_Assistants_in_the_PC
Funcionalidad	Collaboration for document relationships ManageAgents_Workflow ManageCategories_Workflow ManageEmail_Workflow ManageHDDocuments_Workflow
Restricciones sociales	Personal_Assistants_in_the_PC