A Review and Analysis of Commercial User Modeling Servers for Personalization on the World Wide Web
User Modeling and User-Adapted InteractionPublished 1 June 2000
Josef Fink, Alfred Kobsa
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A presentation of the core features of these commercial systems may provide a source of information and inspiration for the design, implementation, and deployment of future user modeling systems in research and commercial environments.
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