The amount of information available online is increasing exponentially. While this
information is a valuable resource, its sheer volume limits its value. Many research projects …

User profiles, descriptions of user interests, can be used by search engines to provide
personalized search results. Many approaches to creating user profiles collect user …

As the number of Internet users and the number of accessible Web pages grows, it is
becoming increasingly difficult for users to find documents that are relevant to their particular …

This paper draws on research from a wide literature base to develop a model relating Web
navigation systems, disorientation, engagement, user performance, and intentions. The …

This paper brings together research from two different fields–user modelling and web
ontologies–in attempt to demonstrate how recent semantic trends in web development can …

Integration of geographic information has increased in importance because of new
possibilities arising from the interconnected world and the increasing availability of …

Databases of text and text-annotated data constitute a significant fraction of the information
available in electronic form. Searching and browsing are the typical ways that users locate …

Databases of text and text-annotated data constitute a significant fraction of the information
available in electronic form. Searching and browsing are the typical ways that users locate …

Although personalized search has been under way for many years and many
personalization algorithms have been investigated, it is still unclear whether personalization …

In this paper we introduce an effective mechanism for obtaining computer games of high
interest (ie satisfaction for the player). The proposed approach is based on the interaction of …