Overview of a Framework for Ubiquitous User Models Interoperability

Martinez-Villaseñor, Lourdes; González-Mendoza, Miguel

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-49622-1_20

Overview of a Framework for Ubiquitous User Models Interoperability

Journal

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

Applications for Future Internet

ISSN

1867-8211

1867-822X

Date Issued

2016

Author(s)

Martinez-Villaseñor, Lourdes

Facultad de Ingeniería - CampCM

González-Mendoza, Miguel

Type

text::book::book part

DOI

10.1007/978-3-319-49622-1_20

URL

https://scripta.up.edu.mx/handle/20.500.12552/4431

Abstract

Researchers in the user modeling community have been interested in sharing and reuse profile information from heterogeneous sources. Ubiquitous user model interoperability allows enrichment of adaptive systems obtaining a better understanding of the user, and decreases the effort associated with creating a user model. We present a framework that enables the interoperability between profile suppliers and consumers with a mixed approach that consist in central ubiquitous user model ontology and a process of concept alignment. The central ontology is a flexible representation of a ubiquitous user model to cope with the dynamicity of a distributed multi-application environment that provides mediation between profile suppliers and consumers. The process of concept alignment automatically discovers the semantic mappings in order to interpret the information from heterogeneous sources and integrate them into a ubiquitous user model. © ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2017.