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• TITLE: UMIS: A Service for User Model Interoperability

  AUTHORS: Federica Cena, Roberto Furnari

  KEYWORDS: User Modeling; Interoperability; Dialogue Game; Semantic Web; Web Service

  JOURNAL NAME: Advances in Internet of Things, Vol.2 No.4, October 30, 2012

  ABSTRACT: In this paper we describe UMIS, a service architecture that enables user adaptive applications to exchange User Model data on the Web. UMIS provides a set of facilities that allow applications to interoperate with minimum changes in their internal logics and knowledge representation. The goal is to support the process of interoperability in three ways: providing an efficient centralized discovery service; offering a service for simple interaction for the exchange of UM value in a p2p way; and offering a negotiation mechanism to be used in case of communication hurdles (i.e. semantic ambiguities and missing response). We developed a proof-of-concept prototype of UMIS and we tested it with an existing user-adaptive application. According to our test results, our approach improves the communication with respect to standard solutions for interoperability regarding the quality of exchange, with a negligible impact on the communication costs and traffic generation.