Personalization for the Semantic Web II

A3-D4PersonalizationfortheSemanticWebIIProjecttitle:ReasoningontheWebwithRulesandSemanticsProjectacronym:REWERSEProjectnumber:IST-2004-506779Projectinstrument:EUFP6NetworkofExcellence(NoE)Projectthematicpriority:Priority2:InformationSocietyTechnologies(IST)Documenttype:D(deliverable)Natureofdocument:R(report)Disseminationlevel:PU(public)Documentnumber:IST506779/Hannover/A3-D4/D/PU/b1Responsibleeditors:NicolaHenzeReviewers:MatteoBaldoni,LiliaCheniti-BelcadhiContributingparticipants:Hannover,Heraklion,Goettingen,Munich,Vienna,Turin,WarsawContributingworkpackages:A3Contractualdateofdeliverable:31August2005Actualsubmissiondate:29August2005AbstractThisreportprovidesanoverviewoftheachievementsofworkinggroupA3forbringingperson-alizationfunctionalitytotheSemanticWeb.ItcontinuestheworkstartedinthedeliverableA3-D1whichgaveanoverviewonpersonalizationknow-howofpartnersinA3.Inthedeliver-ableathand,wereportonourachievementsonreasoningforpersonalizationintheSemanticWeb(seeSection2),andparticularpersonalizationmethods(seeSection3).PrototypesandapplicationswillbediscussedindeliverableA3-D6(month24).KeywordListsemanticweb,reasoning,personalizationProjectco-fundedbytheEuropeanCommissionandtheSwissFederalOfficeforEducationandSciencewithintheSixthFrameworkProgramme.cREWERSE2005.iiPersonalizationfortheSemanticWebIIGrigorisAntoniou1,MatteoBaldoni2,CristinaBaroglio2,RobertBaumgartner3,Fran¸coisBry4,NicolaHenze5,WolfgangMay6,VivianaPatti2,SlawomirT.Wierzchon71InstituteofComputerScience–FORTHHeraklionCrete,[e-mail]2DipartimentodiInformatica—Universit`adegliStudidiTorinoC.soSvizzera,185—I-10149Torino(Italy){baldoni,baroglio,patti}@di.unito.it3Institutf¨urInformationssystemeTechnischeUniversit¨atWien,[e-mail]4ResearchCenterL3S&ISI-Knowledge-BasedSystems,UniversityofHannover,Appelstr.4,D-30167Hannover,[e-mail]5Institutf¨urInformatikLudiwg-Maximilians-Universit¨atM¨unchen,[e-mail]6Institutf¨urInformatikUniversit¨atG¨ottingen,[e-mail]7InstituteofComputerScience–PolishAcademyofSciencesOrdona21,01-237Warsaw,[e-mail]29August2005AbstractThisreportprovidesanoverviewoftheachievementsofworkinggroupA3forbringingperson-alizationfunctionalitytotheSemanticWeb.ItcontinuestheworkstartedinthedeliverableA3-D1whichgaveanoverviewonpersonalizationknow-howofpartnersinA3.Inthedeliver-ableathand,wereportonourachievementsonreasoningforpersonalizationintheSemanticWeb(seeSection2),andparticularpersonalizationmethods(seeSection3).PrototypesandapplicationswillbediscussedindeliverableA3-D6(month24).KeywordListsemanticweb,reasoning,personalizationivContents1ExecutiveSummary12ReasoningMethodsforPersonalizationintheSemanticWeb12.1Overviewon“ReasoningMethodsforPersonalizationintheSemanticWeb”...22.2Personalization:FromtheWorldWideWebtotheSemanticWeb.........23PersonalizationTechniques33.1PlanningandReasoningaboutActions........................33.2AdaptiveHypermediaApproachtoPersonalization.................53.3Rule-basedUserModeling:Applicationtoe-Learningdomain...........64Conclusion65Acknowledgment76Appendix9vvi1ExecutiveSummaryTheworkinworkinggroupA3iscenteredaroundthreeaxes:Inthefirstaxis,weresearchfoundationsforpersonalizationandadaptationintheSemanticWeb,andinparticularaimatlogicalframeworksfordescribingandcharacterizingappropriatepersonalizationfunctionality.ThisaxisisthereforecalledAdaptiveFunctionality.Thesecondaxisisondeployingper-sonalizationfunctionalityinsystemsandprototypes–theTestbeds-axis.Inthethirdaxis,wedevelopapersonalizedinformationsystemfortheSemanticWeb:apersonalizedWebportalfortheREWERSEnetwork.ThisreportbelongstotheAdaptiveFunctionalityaxisandprovidesanoverviewoftheachievementsofworkinggroupA3onresearchingpersonalizationfunctionalityfortheSemanticWeb.ThegoodintegrationbetweentheresearchersofgroupA3hasbeensuccessfullycontinuedandisalsovisiblebyobservingtheauthorsofpapersattachedtothisdeliverable.ThepresentreportcontinuestheworkstartedindeliverableA3-D1,inwhichwegaveanoverviewonpersonalizationknow-howofpartnersinA3,andinREWERSE.Inthisdeliverable,weparticularlyreportabout:1.ReasoningMethodsforPersonalizationintheSemanticWeb:(a)howpersonalizationbasedonreasoningcanberealizedintheSemanticWeb(b)howpersonalizationtechniquesfortheWorldWideWebandtheSemanticWebcanbecharacterized2.TechniquesforPersonalization:(a)howpersonalizationcanberealizedbyemployingplanningandreasoningaboutactions(b)howpersonalizationbasedonadaptivehypermediacanberealizedandgeneral-izedtoachievere-usable,encapsulatedpersonalizationfunctionalityfortheSemanticWeb(c)howrule-basedusermodelingfortheSemanticWebcanbeachieved2ReasoningMethodsforPersonalizationintheSemanticWebTheSemanticWebvisionofanextgenerationWeb,inwhichmachinesareenabledtounder-standthemeaningofinformationinordertobetterinter-operateandbettersupporthumansincarryingouttheirtasks,isveryappealingandfosterstheimaginationofsmarterapplicationsthatcanretrieve,processandpresentinformationinenhancedways.Inthisvisi