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Advances in Ubiquitous User Modelling pp 20–36Cite as

Handling Semantic Heterogeneity in Interoperable Distributed User Models

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Due to the overspread of user adaptive systems user data are collected and processed in diverse settings and from different platforms. The computational effort to extract user models is commonly repeated across applications and domains, mainly due to lack of interoperability and synchronization among user-adaptive systems. One way of achieving a complete picture of a user’s experience is to allow systems to share user data to obtain maximum leverage and reuse of information. We address this process as user model interoperability. One of the major challenge to user models interoperability is handling semantic heterogeneity. The paper proposes a new approach for user model interoperability which deals with the semantic heterogeneity of user models and automates the user model exchange across applications.

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    Francesca Carmagnola

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  1. Management Information Systems Department, The University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, 31905, Haifa, Israel

    Tsvi Kuflik

  2. Tasmanian ICT Centre, CSIRO, Castrayh Esplanade, 7001, Hobart, Australia

    Shlomo Berkovsky

  3. Depatment of Computer Science, University of Turin, Corso Svizzera 185, 10149, Turin, Italy

    Francesca Carmagnola

  4. German Reserach Center for Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent User Interfaces, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Saarbrcken, Germany

    Dominikus Heckmann

  5. Innovative Retail Laboratory (IRL), German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Antonio Krüger

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Carmagnola, F. (2009). Handling Semantic Heterogeneity in Interoperable Distributed User Models. In: Kuflik, T., Berkovsky, S., Carmagnola, F., Heckmann, D., Krüger, A. (eds) Advances in Ubiquitous User Modelling. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5830. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05039-8_2

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