Provision of personalized recommendations to users
requires accurate modeling of their interests and
needs. This book presents a general framework and
specific methodologies for enhancing the accuracy of
user modeling in recommender systems by importing and
integrating data collected by other recommender
systems. Such a process is defined as the mediation
of user models and user modeling data. This book
discusses the details of the generic user modeling
mediation framework, provides a user modeling data
representation model, demonstrates the compatibility
of the model with existing...