Fuzzy User Profiling in e-Learning Contexts

Authors:
Corrado Mencar;Ciro Castiello;Anna Maria Fanelli
Affiliations:
Department of Informatics, University of Bari, Bari, Italy 70125;Department of Informatics, University of Bari, Bari, Italy 70125;Department of Informatics, University of Bari, Bari, Italy 70125
Venue:
KES '08 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Part II
Year:
2008

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Abstract

The research activity described in this paper concerns the personalisation process in e-learning contexts. Particular emphasis is laid on the mechanisms of user profiling and association between user profiles and pedagogical resources. A particular profiling model is proposed where both the pedagogical resources and the user profiles are described in terms of a fuzzy valued metadata specification. The adoption of specific fuzzy operators enables the proposed model to perform associations with a high degree of flexibility, yielding a customised resource allocation for each user.