An integrated web system to facilitate personalized web searching algorithms
Christos H. Makris, Yannis Panagis, Yannis Plegas, Evangelos Sakkopoulos · 2008
Generic web searching often turns out impersonal and frustrating due to lack of adaptivity to user preferences. These problems can be alleviated in the presence of a solution to assist personalization in an effective manner. Such a tool is presented within the context of this paper that enables personalization on the client's browser and is supported by a Web Service based backend system that implement a number of different personalization approaches as an option. Our aim is to provide a generic platform based on web technologies a) for end-user personalization and b) for assistance in the research & development evaluation of existing or novel personalization techniques. The solution is further underpinned with novel personalization techniques. The latter have emerged as fine-grained and improved alternatives to provably efficient personalization methods previously presented in [10]. The solution altogether has been experimentally evaluated and proved effective.