User Modeling : Recent Work , Prospects and Hazards

User modeling has made considerable progress during its existence now of more than a decade. In this paper, a survey of recent developments will be presented, which concentrates on the modeling of a user’s knowledge, plans, and preferences in a domain, on the exploitation of new sources of information about the user, on issues of representation, inference and revision, on user modeling shell systems and servers, and on the verification of the practical utility of user models. Research trends and research deficiencies in these areas will be outlined, and potential risks described.

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