An adaptive hypermedia system using a constraint satisfaction approach for information personalization

  • Authors:
  • Syed Sibte Raza Abidi;Yan Zeng

  • Affiliations:
  • NICHE Research Group, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University Halifax, Canada;NICHE Research Group, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University Halifax, Canada

  • Venue:
  • AH'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Adaptive hypermedia systems offer the functionality to personalize the information experience as per a user-model. In this paper we present a novel content adaptation approach that views information personalization as a constraint satisfaction problem. Information personalization is achieved by satisfying two constraints: (1) relevancy constraints to determine the relevance of a document to a user and (2) co-existence constraints to suggest complementing documents that either provide reinforcing viewpoints or contrasting viewpoints, as per the user’s request. Our information personalization framework involves: (a) an automatic constraint acquisition method, based on association rule mining on a corpus of documents; and (b) a hybrid of constraint satisfaction and optimization methods to derive an optimal solution—i.e. personalized information. We apply this framework to filter news items using the Reuters-21578 dataset.