A generic component for exchanging user models between web-based systems

Kees Van Der Sluijs, Geert-Jan Houben
2006 International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning  
Educational web-based systems exemplify the increasing need for personalisation. Applications that adapt to individual users need a model of the user that contains as accurate data as possible. On the web, learners use multiple educational systems and spend their time over many applications: these are individually limited in their user modelling but can gain from joining forces. This boils down to establishing semantic interoperability of user or learner models. While semantic interoperability
more » ... s hard, the emerging Semantic Web (SW) might offer just the mechanisms we need. In this paper, we develop the Generic User model Component (GUC): a generic software that utilises SW technology to support the exchange of user model data between applications. For a semantically effective user model exchange, GUC allows the configuration of a distributed management of mappings between user models. Thus, applications can choose different levels of uniting user models to maximise their personalisation.
doi:10.1504/ijceell.2006.008918 fatcat:retye3nzg5f23k6pszjiesrcxy