Towards Intelligent and Adaptive Digital Library Services

  • Md Maruf Hasan
  • Ekawit Nantajeewarawat
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 5362)

Abstract

In this paper, we introduced a 3-Layer digital library architecture that facilitates intelligent and adaptive digital library services. We aimed at integrating DL contents with domain-ontology, user-profile and usage-pattern by means of intelligent algorithms and techniques. On top of an open-source digital library system, we developed required modules to capture and manipulate necessary data with the help of efficient techniques such as ontology-driven topic inference, collaborative filtering, single exponential smoothing, etc. We verified that our approach is capable of enhancing and adapting user profile dynamically with the help of ontology-driven topic inference and usage-pattern analysis. Usage pattern and content -based collaborative-filtering techniques are used in developing adaptive recommendation service. We also proposed a User Interest-Drift algorithm based on single exponential smoothing techniques. Our preliminary experimental results and exploratory analyses show that our approach has created positive user experience in a small digital library environment. Large scale deployment of the proposed digital library system along with further refinement of algorithms is also planned.

Keywords

User Modelling Recommender System Collaborative Filtering Interest-drift Modeling Ontology-based Topic Inference Digital library 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Md Maruf Hasan
    • 1
  • Ekawit Nantajeewarawat
    • 2
  1. 1.School of TechnologyShinawatra UniversityThailand
  2. 2.Sirindhorn Int’l Inst. of TechnologyThammasat UniversityThailand

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