A Survey on User Modeling in Multi-Application Environments

Marco Viviani (1) , Nadia Bennani (1) , Elod Egyed-Zsigmond (1)

1 DRIM - Distribution, Recherche d'Information et Mobilité

Sharing heterogeneous data among distributed environments in a user-centric way represents today the main challenge for personalization. In recent years several techniques have been proposed to support user modeling for cross-system personalization, following two main approaches. A first group of researchers base their solutions on the use of a top-down approach, involving standard ontologies or unified user models (standardization-based user modeling); in a second research direction, a bottom-up approach based on mappings between different user model representations is the envisaged solution (mediation-based user modeling). The aim of this paper is to discuss general problems connected to user modeling in multiapplication environments and to provide a short survey on current research in this field. Based on this, we briefly draw out some further research.

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Marco Viviani, Nadia Bennani, Elod Egyed-Zsigmond. A Survey on User Modeling in Multi-Application Environments. The Third International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services CENTRIC'10, Aug 2010, Nice, France. pp.111-116, ⟨10.1109/CENTRIC.2010.30⟩. ⟨hal-01381484⟩