User profile Ontology for the Personalization approach

Abstract

The personalization is to facilitate the expression of the user's need and enable him to obtain relevant information in these information system accesses. The relevance of information is defined by a set of customizable preferences specific to each user or user community. Data describing users are often grouped as profiles. The content of a user's profile varies according to approaches and applications. Existing approaches solves partially problems related to personalization, but it lacks a model giving a complete overview of all aspects of taking into account the preferences of users. In this paper we propose a generic model of profile that includes all aspects of personalization. The proposed model will be the basis of building an ontology called O'Profil able to store all this information, personalize the content and to instantiate the user profile.