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Decentralized Mediation of User Models for a Better Personalization

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Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH 2006)

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The growth of available personalization services and the heterogeneity in content and representation of therein exploited User Models (UMs), raise a need for a mechanism allowing to aggregate partial UMs generated by other services. Such a mechanism will allow reuse of partial UMs in multiple personalization services that may need it. This paper discusses the details of a decentralized mediator for cross-domain and cross-technique translation and aggregation of partial UMs. The mediator facilitates enriching UMs managed by personalization services and improving the quality of the provided personalization.

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  1. University of Haifa, 31905, Haifa, Israel

    Shlomo Berkovsky

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  1. Knowledge and Data Engineering Group, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Vincent P. Wade

  2. School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia, Australia

    Helen Ashman

  3. Adaptive Information Cluster, School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland

    Barry Smyth

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Berkovsky, S. (2006). Decentralized Mediation of User Models for a Better Personalization. In: Wade, V.P., Ashman, H., Smyth, B. (eds) Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems. AH 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4018. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11768012_59

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