David Chin

Alfred Kobsa

Paul De Bra

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18th International Conference, UMAP 2010, Big Island, HI, USA, June 20-24, 2010, Proceedings

User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization

Peter Brusilovsky

Ricardo Conejo

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2002, held in Malaga, Spain, in May 2002. The 33 revised full papers and 23 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 109 submissions. Also included are three invited contributions, 30 posters, and 5 presentations given at the associated doctoral constortium. Among the topics covered are adaptive hypertext and hypermedia, user modeling, adaptive learning, adaptive tutoring systems, information retrieval, educational hypermedia systems, Web adaption, adaptive navigation, adaption and personalization.

Second International Conference, AH 2002 Malaga, Spain, May 29 - 31, 2002 Proceedings

Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization, held on Big Island, HI, USA, in June 2010. This annual conference was merged from the biennial conference series User Modeling, UM, and the conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH. The 26 long papers and 6 short papers presented together with 7 doctoral consortium papers, 2 invited talks, and 4 industry panel papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 161 submissions. The tutorials and workshops were organized in topical sections on intelligent techniques for web personalization and recommender systems; pervasive user modeling and personalization; user models for motivational systems; adaptive collaboration support; architectures and building blocks of web-based user adaptive systems; adaptation and personalization in e-b/learning using pedagogic conversational agents; and user modeling and adaptation for daily routines.

Jan Paredaens

Marc Gyssens

Dirk van Gucht

This book presents an overview of the most fundamental aspects of the theory that underlies the Relational Database Model. As such it is self-contained though experience with formal models and abstract data manipulating on the one hand and with the practical use of a relational system on the other hand can help the reader. Such experience will offer the reader a better understanding of and a motivation for the different concepts, theories and results mentioned in the book. We have focussed on the most basic concepts and aspects of the relational model, without trying to give a complete overview of the state of the art of database theory. Recently a lot of books on databases in general and on the relational model in particular have been published. Most of them describe the use of database systems. 'Some clarify how information has to be structured and organized before it can be used to build applications. Others help the user in writing down his applications or in finding tricky ways to optimize the running time or the necessary space. Another category of books treat more fundamental and more general aspects such as the description of the relational model, independent of any implementation, the decomposition in normal forms or the global design of distributed databases. Few, however, are the books that describe in a formal way some of the subjects mentioned above.

The Structure of the Relational Database Model

Wolfgang Nejdl

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2004, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands in August 2004. The 27 revised full papers and 18 revised short papers presented together with 3 abstracts of keynote talks, 4 doctoral consortium presentations, and 17 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 138 submissions. The papers provide an excellent view on innovative personalization and adaptation functionalities in a variety of areas including e-learning, e-commerce, mobile tourist guides, etc; they also show the integration of personalization functionalities employed in Web environments, in ambient intelligence and intelligent agents contexts, and building upon adaptive hypermedia and semantic Web technologies, Web search, Web services, social and peer-to-peer networks, and recommender systems.

Paul De Bra

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