Semantics in Adaptive and Personalised Services, initially
strikes one as a specific and perhaps narrow domain. Yet, a closer
examination of the term reveals much more. On one hand there is the
issue of semantics. Nowadays, this most often refers to the use of
OWL, RDF or some other XML based ontology description language in
order to represent the entities of problem. Still, semantics may
also very well refer to the consideration of the meanings and
concepts, rather than arithmetic measures, regardless of the
representation used. On the other hand, there is the issue of
adaptation, i.e. automated re-configuration based on some context.
This could be the network and device context, the application
context or the user context; we refer to the latter case as
personalization. From a different perspective, there is the issue
of the point of view from which to examine the topic. There is the
point of view of tools, referring to the algorithms and software
tools one can use, the point of view of the methods, referring to
the abstract methodologies and best practices one can follow, as
well as the point of view of applications, referring to successful
and pioneering case studies that lead the way in research and
innovation. Or at least so we thought.
Based on the above reasoning, the editors identified key
researchers and practitioners in each of the aforementioned
categories and invited them to contribute a corresponding work to
this book. However, as the authors' contributions started to
arrive, the editors also started to realize that although these
categories participate in each chapter to different degrees, none
of them can ever be totally obsolete from them. Moreover, it seems
that theory and methods are inherent in the development of tools
and applications and inversely the application is also inherent in
the motivation and presentation of tools and methods.
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