RESTful User Model API for the Exchange of User’s Preferences among Adaptive Systems

Martin Balík, Ivan Jelínek

2014

Abstract

Adaptive Hypermedia Systems observe users’ behavior and provide personalized hypermedia. Users interact with many systems on the Web, and each user-adaptive system builds its own model of user’s preferences and characteristics. There is a need to share the personal information, and the current research is exploring ways to share user models efficiently. In this paper, we present our solution for personal data exchange among multiple hypermedia applications. First, we designed a communication interface based on the REST architectural style, and then, we defined data structures appropriate for the data exchange. Our user model is ontology-based and therefore, the data from multiple providers can be aligned to achieve interoperability.

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Balík M. and Jelínek I. (2014). RESTful User Model API for the Exchange of User’s Preferences among Adaptive Systems . In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-028-4, pages 627-634. DOI: 10.5220/0004896806270634


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@conference{iceis14,
author={Martin Balík and Ivan Jelínek},
title={RESTful User Model API for the Exchange of User’s Preferences among Adaptive Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2014},
pages={627-634},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004896806270634},
isbn={978-989-758-028-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - RESTful User Model API for the Exchange of User’s Preferences among Adaptive Systems
SN - 978-989-758-028-4
AU - Balík M.
AU - Jelínek I.
PY - 2014
SP - 627
EP - 634
DO - 10.5220/0004896806270634