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The goal
of PerSWed'05 is
to
discuss the current problems of personalization in the Semantic Web
from:
- User modeling
perspective – methodologies for building UM on the
Semantic
Web, personalization techniques, standards and ontologies.
Main research questions to be
addressed at the PerSWed'05 workshop:
- Are there any justifications,
based on
theoretical or empirical studies, of the need for personalizing the
Semantic Web?
- How can semantically rich
resources
empower individual Web users?
- Are there any specific patterns
for
using the Web applications and how can they be used to support
personalization?
- How can current Semantic Web
technologies be adapted to ensure interoperability and reusability in
Web context?
- What methods can be used to
capture
the semantics of end users and align it with the semantics defined by
the content creators?
- How can semantically rich
resources
impact different web applications, and can this impact be tailored to
the needs of each individual user?
- Can user semantics be captured
and
used to offer ontologically appropriate content and ensure the
effective use of the Semantic Web?
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For registration details, please visit the UM'05 web
site.
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The workshop will focus on
issues related to user modeling
techniques
within the new context of Semantic Web. These include, among others:
- techniques
from advanced information systems styled in a way that users can
quickly access
information relevant for their needs;
- enhanced distributed user
modeling
methods to attach user models to information objects in order to obtain
information for personalizing the use of web resources;
- adapting open
user
modeling approaches to capture an user's understanding of a domain
ontology
and to deal with the dynamics of user models;
- capturing the users’
conceptualizations and dealing with conceptual mismatches;
- using
visualization
techniques to enable graphical rendering and elicitation of ontological
user
models.
In addition to user modeling approaches, research is needed
for
defining new architectures of user models to deal both with alignment
of different perspectives and standardization and reuse across web
applications.
The workshop topics
may include,
but will
not be limited to:
- Technologies for engineering of
large
amounts of domain information and resources to appropriately tailor
them to the individual preferences and knowledge state of different
users;
- Adaptive information retrieval
and
offering of content tailored to the users’ needs;
- Ontology-based reasoning for
personalizing the Semantic Web;
- Techniques and methods to
capture and
employ user semantics:
- initialization and gradual
maintenance of user model;
- quick and most relevant access
point
to the user;
- accuracy of the system's
assumptions
about the user's knowledge, goals, understanding of the task, etc.;
- empowerment of the system's
diagnosis with user input;
- dealing with information that
is not
encoded in the domain knowledge;
- Architectures for building and
sharing
models of users, content, and personalization components.
The Special Session on is organized within the context of
FP6 PROLEARN network of
excellence.
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