User Modelling Sharing for Adaptive e-Learning and Intelligent Help

摘要

This paper presents a domain independent method for user modelling sharing between applications. More specifically, a user modelling server, called UM-Server, has been developed. UM-Server embodies a multi-criteria decision making theory on the server side and provides services to any application that requests for it. To demonstrate the re-usablility of UM-Server, we have used a common user model in three different applications of various domains, an e-learning system for health issues and two intelligent user interfaces, one for file manipulation and one for e-mailing. Despite the differences that exists between these domains, it is shown that the generalised method proposed can be successfully used by various applications.