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Personalisation in Highly Dynamic Grid Services Environments

Personalisation in Highly Dynamic Grid Services Environments
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Author(s): Edgar Jembere (University of Zululand, South Africa), Matthew O. Adigun (University of Zululand, South Africa)and Sibusiso S. Xulu (University of Zululand, South Africa)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 30
Source title: Open Information Management: Applications of Interconnectivity and Collaboration
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Samuli Niiranen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland), Jari Yli-Hietanen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)and Artur Lugmayr (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-246-6.ch013

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Abstract

Human Computer Interaction (HCI) challenges in highly dynamic computing environments can be solved by tailoring the access and use of services to user preferences. In this era of emerging standards for open and collaborative computing environments, the major challenge that is being addressed in this chapter is how personalisation information can be managed in order to support cross-service personalisation. The authors’ investigation of state of the art work in personalisation and context-aware computing found that user preferences are assumed to be static across different context descriptions whilst in reality some user preferences are transient and vary with changes in context. Further more, the assumed preference models do not give an intuitive interpretation of a preference and lack user expressiveness. This chapter presents a user preference model for dynamic computing environments, based on an intuitive quantitative preference measure and a strict partial order preference representation, to address these issues. The authors present an approach for mining context-based user preferences and its evaluation in a synthetic m-commerce environment. This chapter also shows how the data needed for mining context-based preferences is gathered and managed in a Grid infrastructure for mobile devices.

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