Addressing Temporal Aspects in User Modelling

Early studies about user modeling already noted that user models need to continuously adapt, as new information about the user becomes available, keeping the user model updated. Although temporal aspects are inherent characteristics of user modeling, so far, they were not specifically dealt with. Therefore, the proposed research will suggest an abstract, generic framework to deal with temporal aspects of user modeling while providing guidelines based on domains characteristics for handling temporal aspects in User Modelling.