Nowadays a large number of user-adaptive systems has been developed. Commonly, the
effort to build user models is repeated across applications and domains, due to the lack of …

Currently, there is an increasing demand for user-adaptive systems for various purposes in
many different domains. Typically, personalisation in information systems occurs separately …

Nowadays, there is a constant need of acquiring new knowledge and skills to keep up with
the demands of changing environment. The design and development of training and …

Many Web applications provide personalized and adapted services and contents to their
users. As these Web applications are becoming increasingly connected, a new interesting …

Due to the overspread of user adaptive systems user data are collected and processed in
diverse settings and from different platforms. The computational effort to extract user models …

Refining city services is gradually being placed in the hands of the citizens, or, as in the case
of IBM's initiative,“let's build a planet of smarter cities”(https://www-03. ibm. com/press/us/en …

The constant interaction of users with different Digital Libraries (DLs) and the subsequent
scattering of user information across them raise the need not only for Digital Library …

Many Web applications have offered personalization and adaptation as their features in
order to provide personalized services to their users. The user profiles are gathered …

Creating adaptive learning resources is a complex, time-consuming process. Problems
emerged regarding interoperability, reusability, and collaboration. This paper discusses a …

A major challenge for creating personalized diet and activity applications is to capture static,
semi-static and dynamic information about a person in a user-friendly way. Sharing and …