The paper reviews the development of generic user modeling systems over the past twenty years. It describes their purposes, their services within user-adaptive systems, and the dif...
Abstract. Recommender systems have traditionally recommended items to individual users, but there has recently been a proliferation of recommenders that address their recommendatio...
This chapter is about personalization and adaptation in electronic commerce (e-commerce) applications. In the first part, we briefly introduce the challenges posed by e-commerce ...
Abstract. The amount of information available online is increasing exponentially. While this information is a valuable resource, its sheer volume limits its value. Many research pr...
Susan Gauch, Mirco Speretta, Aravind Chandramouli,...
Ontologies and reasoning are the key terms brought into focus by the semantic web community. Formal representation of ontologies in a common data model on the web can be taken as a...
In recent years, technological developments have made it possible to build interactive 3D models of objects and 3D Virtual Environments that can be experienced through the Web, usi...
This chapter discusses the application of some of the technologies of the adaptive web to the problem of providing information for healthcare consumers. The particular issues relat...
In this chapter we describe techniques for adaptive presentation of content on the Web. We first describe techniques to select and structure the content deemed to be most relevant ...
One distinctive feature of any adaptive system is the user model that represents essential information about each user. This chapter complements other chapters of this book in revi...