Introduction to the Special Issue on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (original) (raw)

New Rev. Hypermedia Multim., 2018

Abstract

ACM UMAP is an annual conference on user modeling, adaptation and personalization. User modeling concerns the process of understanding the user’s needs, preferences, interests, knowledge and other aspects. This is achieved by reasoning about and extracting knowledge from user data, which includes both data that is explicitly provided by the user—such as profile data—and implicitly gathered usage data—such as browsing data. Adaptation and personalization techniques exploit the user models in order to better tailor a software system, such as a website, to the user needs. Recommender systems are the best known type of personalized systems, but the field is much wider and includes among others personalized search, adaptive user interfaces, personalized advice, and personalized technology-enhanced learning. This special issue contains extended versions of selected papers from UMAP 2017, the 25th edition of the conference series. The conference was hosted in Bratislava, Slovakia, from 9 t...

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