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PersDL 2007
10th DELOS Thematic Workshop on
Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Digital Libraries
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Foreword
The 10th DELOS Thematic Workshop on Personalized Access, Profile Management,
and Context Awareness in Digital Libraries (PersDL 2007) was held in conjunction with the
UM 2007 Conference
on the 29th and 30th June 2007 in Corfu, Greece.
Organized by the DELOS Network of Excellence,
the PersDL 2007 workshop aimed at providing a forum for presentation of the latest research results,
new technology developments, and new applications in the areas of personalized access,
profile management, and context awareness in digital libraries.
Preface, by the Chairs
As the meeting point of several diverse fields, Digital Libraries encompass many different notions of personalization
and contextualization. The PersDL2007 workshop, the 10th in the series of thematic workshops organized by the DELOS
Network of Excellence (http://www.delos.info/), had as its theme "Personalized Access, Profile Management, and
Context Awareness in Digital Libraries" and aimed at providing a forum for presentation of the latest research
results, new technology developments, and new applications in the areas of personalized access, profile management,
and context awareness in digital libraries.
The workshop was held in Corfu, Greece, June 29-30, 2007, in conjunction with the UM 2007 Conference. It included two
keynote talks and twelve papers organized in five sessions. All papers as well as extended abstracts of the two keynote
talks are included here.
Bamshad Mobasher (DePaul University), an expert in web mining and web personalization, outlined
some of the major issues in building secure personalization systems, concentrating, in particular, on the modeling of attacks,
their impact on various algorithms, and methods for automatic detection of attack profiles.
Massimo Melucci (University of Padua, Italy), an expert in information retrieval, described how context provides a new
perspective in information retrieval and presented a principled approach to modeling and ranking information objects
in context using vector spaces.
The program committee for this workshop consisted of 19 members and was chaired by Werner Kießling
(University of Ausburg, Germany) and Georgia Koutrika (Stanford University, USA). It accepted 12 papers out of 23 submissions.
We would like to thank all the people who have supported and helped in the organization of this workshop:
the authors and presenters of the papers, the reviewers for their effort and help in preparing the workshop's program,
and the organizers. In particular, we would like to thank Yannis Stavrakas (National Technical University of Athens, Hellas)
for the smooth organization of the workshop.
Program Committee Chairs
Werner Kießling (University Augsburg, Germany)
Georgia Koutrika (Stanford University, USA)
General Chairs
Tiziana Catarci (Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
Yannis Ioannidis (University of Athens, Hellas)
Timos Sellis (National Technical University of Athens, Hellas)
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