The Gugubarra Project: Building and Evaluating User Profiles for Visitors of Web Sites

Purpose -An important issue in the management of a web-based user community, where users are registered to a web portal, is to identify patterns of users' interest. In this context, the users' feedback plays a major role. The purpose of this paper is to define a novel framework analysis for managing the feedback given by registered visitors of a web site. Design/methodology/approach -The paper presents a new technique to integrate the feedback explicitly given by users into already existing user profiles. The authors introduce the novel concepts of scope, filtering, and relevance profiles for managing users' feedback. The new concept of Relevance Profile (RP) is defined. Findings -Using the framework, the authors were able to discover patterns of usage of registered users of a web site. Practical implications -The practical applicability of the approach is validated by a use case study showing how the framework can be used with a real web site. The authors used Gugubarra as a reference system, a prototype for creating and managing web user profiles, developed by the DBIS group at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt. Originality/value -A new way to integrate the user feedback into interest profiles and a novel framework to analyze and discover patterns of interests are presented. The paper is an extended version (more than 50 per cent novel material) of a previous paper presented at the iiWAS2010 conference.

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Creating User Profiles of Web Visitors Using Zones, Weights and Actions

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2008

2008 10th IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology and the Fifth IEEE Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Serv

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The Gugubarra Project: Building and Evaluating User Profiles for Visitors of Web Sites

Abstract: In this paper we will report the work currently being doing one the Gugubarra project. The project aims at building tools for better management of communities of Web visitors.

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Reputation, framing strategies and user's choice of content on the Web: an empirical study

Reputation, framing strategies and user's choice of content on the Web: an empirical study

A framework analysis for managing feedback of visitors of a web site

Creating User Profiles of Web Visitors Using Zones, Weights and Actions

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