Abstract:
Situation awareness is a promising approach to recommend to a mobile user the most suitable resources for a specific situation. However, determining the correct user situ...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Situation awareness is a promising approach to recommend to a mobile user the most suitable resources for a specific situation. However, determining the correct user situation is not a simple task since users have different habits that may affect the way in which the situations arise. Thus, an appropriate tuning aimed at adapting the situation recognizer to the specific user is desirable to make a resource recommender more effective. In this paper, we show how this objective can be achieved by collecting data during the interaction of the user with the mobile device and using this context history to personalize the resource recommender by a genetic algorithm. To describe our approach, we adopt a recently proposed resource recommender which exploits fuzzy linguistic variables to manage the inherent vagueness of some contextual parameters. Experimental results on a real business case show that the responsiveness and modeling capabilities of the recommender increase, thus validating the proposed approach.
Date of Conference: 29 November 2010 - 01 December 2010
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 13 January 2011
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