Finding Non-Obvious Profiles by Using Ant-Algorithms

Abstract

Visitors on a website are usually on their own when they are moving around. First time visitors are especially guessing where to find the information they are looking for. In this paper we will show a way to combine the concepts of non-obvious profiles and ant-algorithms to come up with a set of paths, which tries to cover the user's interests in a proper way. These paths can be used to give recommendations to visitors. While the profiles help to get a better understanding of the users' interests, the concept of ant-algorithms is employed to determine recently and frequently used paths to lead the user to the desired information. We explain the basic idea of our approach, the current state of the prototype realized and some first results.