The Adaptive Web

by Brusilovsky, Peter; Kobsa, Alfred; Nejdl, Wolfgang

• ISBN13: 9783540720782
• ISBN10: 3540720782
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-01
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

Following the increase in of the information available on the Web, the diversity of its users and the complexity of Web applications, researchers started developing adaptive Web systems that tailored their appearance and behavior to each individual user or user group. Adaptive systems were designed for different usage contexts, exploring different kinds of personalization. Web personalization has evolved into a large research field attracting scientists from different communities such as hypertext, user modeling, machine learning, natural language generation, information retrieval, intelligent tutoring systems, cognitive science, and Web-based education.This state-of-the-art survey provides a systematic overview of the ideas and techniques of the adaptive Web and serves as a central source of information for researchers, practitioners, and students. The volume constitutes a comprehensive and carefully planned collection of chapters, mapping out the most important areas of the adaptive Web, each solicited from experts and leaders in the field.The largest part of the book focuses on personalization techniques, namely the modeling side of personalization (Chaps. 1-5), and on adaptation, (Chaps. 6-14). The technique-focused part is complemented by four domain-oriented chapters in the third section of the book (Chaps. 15-18). The last section is devoted to recently emerging topics; it provides a prospective view of the new ideas and techniques that are moving rapidly into the focus of the adaptive Web community and gives the reader a glimpse into the not-so-distant future.

Table of Contents

User models for adaptive hypermedia and adaptive educational systems	p. 3
User profiles for personalized information access	p. 54
Data mining for Web personalization	p. 90
Generic user modeling systems	p. 136
Web document modeling	p. 155
Personalized search on the World Wide Web	p. 195
Adaptive focused crawling	p. 231
Adaptive navigation support	p. 263
Collaborative filtering recommender systems	p. 291
Content-based recommendation systems	p. 325
Case-based recommendation	p. 342
Hybrid Web recommender systems	p. 377
Adaptive content presentation for the Web	p. 409
Adaptive 3D Web sites	p. 433
Adaptive information for consumers of healthcare	p. 465
Personalization in e-commerce applications	p. 485
Adaptive mobile guides	p. 521
Adaptive news access	p. 550
Adaptive support for distributed collaboration	p. 573
Recommendation to groups	p. 596
Privacy-enhanced Web personalization	p. 628
Open corpus adaptive educational hypermedia	p. 671
Semantic Web technologies for the adaptive Web	p. 697
Usability engineering for the adaptive Web	p. 720
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