Personalized Information Retrieval and Access: Concepts, Methods and Practices

Personalized Information Retrieval and Access: Concepts, Methods and Practices

Rafael Andrés González, Nong Chen, Ajantha Dahanayake
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Release Date: March, 2008|Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 370
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-510-8
ISBN13: 9781599045108|ISBN10: 1599045109|EISBN13: 9781599045122
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Description:

Global information retrieval and anywhere, anytime information access has stimulated a need to design and model the personalized information search in a flexible and agile way that can use the specific personalization techniques, algorithms, and available technology infrastructure to satisfy high-level functional requirements for personalization.

Personalized Information Retrieval and Access: Concepts, Methods and Practices surveys the main concepts, methods, and practices of personalized information retrieval and access in today's data intensive, dynamic, and distributed environment, and provides students, researchers, and practitioners with authoritative coverage of recent technological advances that are shaping the future of globally distributed information retrieval and anywhere, anytime information access.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Agent technology
  • Content personalization method
  • Context-aware information retrieval and access
  • Digital Library
  • E-Commerce
  • Global information retrieval
  • Global Information Technology
  • Information filtering systems
  • Meta search engine
  • Multi-agent architecture
  • Personalization Algorithms
  • Personalized information retrieval and access
  • Recommender Systems
  • Search engine
  • Semantic Web
  • Situation-aware information retrieval and access
  • User modeling and profiling
  • Web Mining
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This book presents concepts, approaches, architectures, and models that contribute to dealing with the challenges of mobility and ubiquity.

– Rafael Andrés González, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

This book has emphasis placed on how the mobility of terminals, people, and services are affected by retrieval technologies.

– Book News Inc. (June 2008)

This book was of particular interest since nontext retrieval is stall an uncharted territory.

– CHOICE (January 2009)

[This book] covering cutting-edge issues/topics plus solutions in the environment of global information and retrieval and anywhere-anytime information access. It can help improve our understandings of the current challenges of ubiquitous computing.

– Online Information Review, Vol. 33 No. 1 (2009)
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Rafael Andrés Gonzalez has been assistant professor in the areas of information systems and software engineering at Javeriana University, Bogotá, Colombia, in addition to acting as an IT consultant. He is currently a PhD student in the Technology, Policy and Management Faculty, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. His present research focuses on information systems for supporting coordination in the domain of crisis management. He holds a Systems Engineering degree from Javeriana University and an MSc in computer science from Delft University of Technology.
Nong Chen is a researcher at the Faculty of Technology, Police and Management, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. She received a BSc in industrial engineering from the School of Economy and Management, Beijing University of Technology, China. She received an MSc in technical informatics from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology. Her research interests are personalized information seeking and retrieval, system modeling and architecture, crisis response and management, geographic information systems, and location-based services.
Ajantha Dahanayake is an associate professor at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) and a full professor at Georgia College and State University, GA. She gives lectures on information systems engineering-related topics and was the program chair of the information systems and software systems distance education program at the Open University.
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