Description
the ontology is used mainly for providing personalized access to information resources. Individual user preferences w.r.t. particular application settings are formally specified by means of an ontology, which, in conjunction with appropriate reasoning services, can be directly integrated to a personalization component for filtering purposes. The usage of ontologies in personalization tasks might be carried out in various forms, from a direct involvement of the user who manually specifies ontological concepts which optimally describe his preferences, to the ontological modelling of user profiles.