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Database Query Personalization

Database Query Personalization

Georgia Koutrika
Copyright: © 2005 |Pages: 6
ISBN13: 9781591405603|ISBN10: 1591405602|EISBN13: 9781591407959
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-560-3.ch025
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Koutrika, Georgia. "Database Query Personalization." Encyclopedia of Database Technologies and Applications, edited by Laura C. Rivero, et al., IGI Global, 2005, pp. 147-152. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-560-3.ch025

APA

Koutrika, G. (2005). Database Query Personalization. In L. Rivero, J. Doorn, & V. Ferraggine (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Database Technologies and Applications (pp. 147-152). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-560-3.ch025

Chicago

Koutrika, Georgia. "Database Query Personalization." In Encyclopedia of Database Technologies and Applications, edited by Laura C. Rivero, Jorge Horacio Doorn, and Viviana E. Ferraggine, 147-152. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2005. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-560-3.ch025

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Abstract

Traditional database and information retrieval systems have followed a query-based information access paradigm (i.e., information is returned to the user on the basis of a query issued). As a result, users issuing the same query are provided with the same answer. With the advent of the World Wide Web and hand-held electronic devices such as palmtops and cellular phones, information access entered a new era. Increasing amounts of information become available to a growing mass of untrained lay users through various access media. A user searching Web-resident information may have to reformulate queries issued several times and sift through many results until a satisfactory, if any, answer is obtained. As purely query-driven approaches may be inappropriate in this context, the need for a shift towards a more user-centered information access paradigm arises. To this end, different approaches aim to the personalization of the overall user experience at different levels: content selection, content presentation, and user interaction.

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