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    The role of context for information mediation
    ( 2005)
    Neuhold, E.
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    Niederee, C.
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    Frommholz, I.
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    Stewart, A.
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    Mehta, B.
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    Ontologically-enriched unified user modeling for cross-system personalization
    ( 2005)
    Mehta, B.
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    Niederée, C.
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    Stewart, A.
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    Degemmis, M.
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    Lops, P.
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    Semeraro, G.
    Personalization today has wide spread use on many Web sites. Systems and applications store preferences and information about users in order to provide personalized access. However, these systems store user profiles in proprietary formats. Although some of these systems store similar information about the user., exchange or reuse of information is not possible and information is duplicated. Additionally, since user profiles tend to be deeply buried inside such systems, users have little control over them. This paper proposes the use of a common ontology-based user context model as a basis for the exchange of user profiles between multiple systems and, thus, as a foundation for cross-system personalization.
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    An architecture for recommendation based service mediation
    ( 2004)
    Mehta, B.
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    Niederee, C.
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    Stewart, A.
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    Muscogiuri, C.
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    Neuhold, E.J.
    Resource brokering is a crucial activity in Grid infrastructures and other environments with dynamic resource selection. The Mediation between resource requirements and available resources relies on adequate resource description, which becomes a special challenge when the resources are (Grid) services. In addition to the description of service semantics, service quality is another useful selection criteria in effective service mediation. Inspired by the success of community- and usage-pattern-based filtering and recommendation systems for targeted information access, this paper discusses automatic and manual service rating as an option for judging service quality. Such ratings can contribute to targeted service selection and complement the mediation based on service semantics.
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    Extending your neighborhood-relationship-based recommendations using your personal web context
    ( 2004)
    Stewart, A.
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    Niederée, C.
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    Mehta, B.
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    Hemmje, M.
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    Neuhold, E.
    The people, documents, and other entities from a domain persons know, or are in other ways associated with, influence their decision making and the types of recommendations that serve them best. For example, recommending persons to meet in a conference or a paper to read from a digital library collection does not only depend on the task, interests, and skills of a user, but also on the persons and works they are already familiar with. In order for personalization services to reflect this dependency, extended user models that consider users' network of related domain entities in addition to other user characteristics, are required. Based on a unified context model, we present the Personal Web Context approach that models the typed relationships a user is involved in. Based on a Resource Network which can, for example, be built from the information collection and the associated meta data managed by a digital library, domain-specific rules are used to suggest valuable extensions of this "neighborhood" of a user. Such work can form the basis for new types of digital library services.
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    The role of context for information mediation in digital libraries
    ( 2004)
    Neuhold, E.J.
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    Niederée, C.
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    Stewart, A.
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    Frommholz, I.
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    Mehta, B.
    Mediating between available information objects and individual information needs is a central issue within the functionality of a digital library. In the simplest case this is an information request answered by a search engine based on an analysis of information objects within the digital library's information collection. However, neither the information access activity nor the information objects within the collection are isolated entities. They are both equipped with a multifaceted context. The invited talk, which is summarized by this paper, analyzes this context and discusses complementing approaches to make such context explicit and to use it for refining the mediation process within digital libraries.