User Modeling and Personalization

Exercise 4: Overlay User Modeling, Entropy

Markus Rokicki

L3S Research Center / Leibniz University of Hanover

Hannover, Germany

22.05.2017

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Exercise 1: Overlay User Modeling

Ikea plans to offer online training courses for their employees. They
want to train their in-house sales staff, telephone operators, and
assemblers.

1. Create a domain model that describes the Ikea domain

knowledge: To this end, define concepts and prerequisits of
the Ikea learning space.
2. Select two of the employee positions and specify a
corresponding overlay model.
3. Which weighting schemes can be used to specify the degree of
knowledge? Which one is the most appropriate?

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Exercise 2 : Entropy and Overlap
Given are the following user profiles:
profile tag (frequency) 1. Calculate the entropy for the
hannover (8)
flickr-bob given user profiles.
italy (4)
research (8)
stumble-bob
semantic web (8) 2. Calculate the pairwise
semantic web (10) overlap between the first
social web (5) three user profiles.
delicious-bob
hannover (3)
user modeling (3)
semantic web (18) 3. Give an example of two user
hannover (11) profiles where the entropy of
mypes-bob research (8) the individual profiles is
(aggregated) social web (5) higher than the entropy of
italy (4) the combined user profile.
user modeling (3)
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