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 t...
This paper presents HomeViews, a peer-to-peer middleware system for building personal data management applications. HomeViews provides abstractions and services for data organizat...
Roxana Geambasu, Magdalena Balazinska, Steven D. G...
This paper proposes a new storage model, device transparency, in which users view and manage their entire data collection from any of their devices, even from disconnected storage...
Jacob Strauss, Chris Lesniewski-Laas, Justin Mazzo...
In authorization-transparent access control, users formulate their queries against the database schema rather than against authorization views that transform and hide data. The Tru...
To provide personalized health recommendations concerning disabled persons, an adaptive system needs a detailed user model that can account for the peculiar aspects of the many exi...
Luca Chittaro, Roberto Ranon, Luca De Marco, Augus...