Ontology-Based Recommendation Algorithms for Personalized Education

Abstract

This paper presents recommendation algorithms that personalize course and curriculum content for individual students, within the broader scope of Pervasive Cyberinfrastructure for Personalizing Learning and Instructional Support (PERCEPOLIS). The context considered in making recommendations includes the academic background, interests, and computing environment of the student, as well as past recommendations made to students with similar profiles. Context provision, interpretation, and management are the services that facilitate consideration of this information. Context modeling is through a two-level hierarchy of generic and domain ontologies, respectively; reducing the reasoning search space. Imprecise query support increases the flexibility of the recommendation engine, by allowing interpretation of context provided in terms equivalent, but not necessarily identical to database access terms of the system. The relevance of the recommendations is increased by using both individual and collaborative filtering. Correct operation of the algorithms has been verified through prototyping.

Meeting Name

23rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (2012: Sep. 3-6, Vienna, Austria)

Department(s)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Second Department

Computer Science

Keywords and Phrases

Collaborative Filtering; Computing Environments; Context Modeling; Cyber Infrastructures; Database Access; Domain Ontologies; Imprecise Queries; Instructional Support; Ontology-Based; Recommendation Algorithms; Search Spaces; Curricula; Database Systems; Expert Systems; Students; Algorithms

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-3642325960; 978-3642325977

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

0302-9743; 1611-3349

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2012 Springer Verlag, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Sep 2012

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