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Managing contextual preferences

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Kostas Stefanidis *
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Evaggelia Pitoura
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Panos Vassiliadis
DOI:10.1016/j.is.2011.06.004delete
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To handle the overwhelming amount of information currently available, personalization systems allow users to specify through preferences which pieces of data interest them. Most often, users have different preferences depending on context. In this paper, we introduce a model for expressing such contextual preferences. Context is modeled using a set of hierarchical attributes, thus allowing context specification at various levels of detail. We formulate the context resolution problem as the problem of selecting appropriate preferences based on context for personalizing a query. We also propose algorithms for context resolution based on data structures that index preferences by exploiting the hierarchical nature of the context attributes. Finally, we evaluate our approach from two perspectives: usability and performance. Usability evaluates the overheads imposed on users for specifying context-dependent preferences, as well as their satisfaction from the quality of the results. Our performance results focus on the context resolution using the proposed indexes. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
Preferences
Personalization
Context
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