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International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems

DNIS 2003: Databases in Networked Information Systems pp 5–15Cite as

Web Information Personalization: Challenges and Approaches

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 2822))

Abstract

As the number of web pages increases dramatically, the problem of the information overload becomes more severe when browsing and searching the WWW. To alleviate this problem, personalization becomes a popular remedy to customize the Web environment towards a user’s preference. To date, recommendation systems and personalized web search systems are the most successful examples of Web personalization. By focusing on these two types of systems, this paper reviews the challenges and the corresponding approaches proposed in the past ten years.

This research has been funded in part by NSF grants EEC-9529152 (IMSC ERC) and IIS-0082826, and unrestricted cash gifts from Microsoft, NCR, and Okawa Foundation.

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    Cyrus Shahabi

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    Yi-Shin Chen

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Shahabi, C., Chen, YS. (2003). Web Information Personalization: Challenges and Approaches. In: Bianchi-Berthouze, N. (eds) Databases in Networked Information Systems. DNIS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2822. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39845-5_2

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