I have done a Ph.D. in the area of user modelling. This will be defended at December 13th, 2006. An electronic version of my thesis and a summary can be found here
User modelling
The research area of user modeling seeks to enhance human computer interaction by automatically tailoring the system to the user. As user modelling can be confused with other activities that do not involve automatic personalisation, the subject is also called adaptive personalisation. Adaptive personalisation involves User modeling involves the use of incremental behaviour analysis for acquiring user models. It also involves adaptation of the system behaviour to the user model.
The key part of a user modeling system is the user model. In order to know what a user model should look like it is necessary to know the adaptation methods that are going to be employed. In particular it is necessary to know the which kinds of adaptation methods will be used. The methods used to do the reasoning are described in the adaptation model.
Publications
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Lai Xu, Paul de Vrieze, Athman Bouguettaya and Jian Yang,
Adaptation driven change management,
International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF 2009),
Porto, Portugal, January 2009
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- Lai Xu and Paul de Vrieze,
Business Process Outsourcing,
Chapter in Consumer Behavior, Organizational Development, and Electronic Commerce: Emerging Issues for Advancing Modern Socioeconomies,
Idea Group, Oct. 2008
- Lai Xu and Paul de Vrieze,
E-contracting Challenges,
Chapter in Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology (second edition),
Idea Group, USA, Sep. 2008
- Lai Xu and Paul de Vrieze,
Fundaments of virtual organization e-contracting,
8th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprices,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Guimaraes, Portugal, 2007
- Paul de Vrieze, Patrick van Bommel and Theo van der Weide,
A method for incorporating User Modelling,
Journal of Digital Information Management,
Volume 4 (issue 2) June 2006
- Bas van Gils, Erik Proper and Paul de Vrieze,
Transformation selection for aptness-based web retrieval,
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian Database Conference (ADC2005),
Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series, Vol: 39, Pages 115-124, Australian Computer Society, 2005, ISBN 192068221X
- Paul de Vrieze, Patrick van Bommel, J. Klok and Theo van der Weide,
Adaptation in Multimedia Systems,
Multimedia Tools and Applications,
Volume 25 (issue 3) March 2005
- Paul de Vrieze, Patrick van Bommel and Theo van der Weide,
A Method for Incorporating User Modelling,
Technical Report NIII-R0448,
December 2004
- Paul de Vrieze, Patrick van Bommel and Theo van der Weide,
A Generic Adaptive Model in Adaptive Hypermedia,
Proceedings of the AH2004 conference,
August 2004
- Paul de Vrieze, Patrick van Bommel and Theo van der Weide,
A Generic Adaptive Model in Adaptive Hypermedia,
Technical Report NIII-R0424,
May 2004
- Paul de Vrieze, Patrick van Bommel and Theo van der Weide,
A Generic Engine for User Model Based Adaptation,
Proceedings of the User Interfaces for All (UI4ALL04) workshop,
June 2004
- Paul de Vrieze, Patrick van Bommel and Theo van der Weide,
A Generic Engine for User Model Based Adaptation,
Technical Report NIII-R0423,
May 2004
- Paul de Vrieze, Patrick van Bommel, J. Klok and Theo van der Weide,
Towards a Two-Dimensional Framework for User Models,
Proceedings of the MAWIS03 workshop attached to the OOIS03 conference, Geneva,
Sept 2003
- Paul de Vrieze, Patrick van Bommel, J. Klok and Theo van der Weide,
Towards a Two-Dimensional Framework for User Models,
Technical Report NIII-R0320,
June 2003
Extra
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Paul de Vrieze,
Improving search engine technology (Master thesis),
Tilburg University,
March 7th, 2002
