Marcella.Zaragoza@ISL1.RI.CMU.EDU.UUCP (06/15/87)
SPECIAL SEMINAR
SPEAKER: Timothy Finin
Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
WHEN: Thursday, June 18, 1987, 10:00 am
WHERE: Doherty Hall 3313
TOPIC: DEFAULT REASONING AND STEREOTYPES IN USER MODELLING
This talk discusses the application of various kinds of default reasoning in
systems which must maintain a model of its users. In particular, we
describe a general architecture of a domain independent system for building
and maintaining long term models of individual users. The user modelling
system is intended to provide a well defined set of services for an
application system which is interacting with various users and has a need to
build and maintain models of them. As the application system interacts with
a user, it can acquire knowledge of him and pass that knowledge on to the
user model maintenance system for incorporation. We describe a prototype
general user modelling system (hereafter called GUMS1 which we have
implemented in Prolog. This system satisfies some of the desirable
characteristics we discuss.
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