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Purpose-Based User Modelling in a Multi-agent Portfolio Management System

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This poster outlines a new approach for decentralized user modelling using a taxonomy of purposes that define a variety of context-dependent user modelling processes rather than creating and maintaining a single centralized user modelling server. This approach can be useful in distributed environments where autonomous agents develop user models independently and do not necessarily adhere to a common representation scheme.

This work is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 5A9, Canada

    Xiaolin Niu, Gordon McCalla & Julita Vassileva

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  1. School of Information Sciences, Department of Information Science and Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh, 135 North Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA

    Peter Brusilovsky

  2. Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Albert Corbett

  3. Intelligent Interfaces, Department of Informatics, University of Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70126, Bari, Italy

    Fiorella de Rosis

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Niu, X., McCalla, G., Vassileva, J. (2003). Purpose-Based User Modelling in a Multi-agent Portfolio Management System. In: Brusilovsky, P., Corbett, A., de Rosis, F. (eds) User Modeling 2003. UM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2702. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44963-9_56

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