Personalized Information Retrieval and Access: Concepts, Methods and Practices

by Gonzalez, Rafael Andres; Chen, Nong; Dahanayake, Ajantha

• ISBN13: 9781599045108
• ISBN10: 1599045109
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-31
• Publisher: Igi Global

Summary

Global information retrieval and anywhere, anytime information access has stimulated a need to design and model the personalized information search in a flexible and agile way that can use the specific personalization techniques, algorithms, and available technology infrastructure to satisfy high-level functional requirements for personalization.Personalized Information Retrieval and Access: Concepts, Methods and Practices surveys the main concepts, methods, and practices of personalized information retrieval and access in today's data intensive, dynamic, and distributed environment, and provides students, researchers, and practitioners with authoritative coverage of recent technological advances that are shaping the future of globally distributed information retrieval and anywhere, anytime information access

Table of Contents

Concepts
Learning Personalized Ontologies from Text: A Review on an Inherently Transdisciplinary Area	p. 1
Overview of Design Options for Neighborhood-Based Collaborative Filterning Systems	p. 30
Exploring Information Management Problems in the Domain of Critical Incidents	p. 55
Mining for Web Personalization	p. 77
Clustering Web Information Sources	p. 98
Methods and Practices
A Conceptual Structure for Designing Personalized Information Seeking and Retrieval Systems in Data Intensive Domains	p. 119
Privacy Control Requirements for Context-Aware Mobile Services	p. 151
User and Context-Aware Quality Filters Based on Web Metadata Retrieval	p. 167
Personalized Content-Based Image Retrieval	p. 194
Service-Oriented Architectures for Context-Aware Information Retrieval and Access	p. 220
On Personalizing Web Services Using Context	p. 232
Role-Based Multi-Agent Systems	p. 254
Towards a Context Definition for Multi-Agent Systems	p. 286
Compilation of References	p. 308
About the Contributors	p. 342
Index	p. 347
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