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International Journal of Expert Systems
Default Reasoning and Stereotypes in User Modelling
September 1, 1988
This article discusses the application of various kinds of default reasoning in systems which must maintain a model of its users. In particular, we describe a general architecture of a domain-independent system for building and maintaining long-term models of individual users. The user modelling system is intended to provide a well-defined set of services for an application system that interacts with various users and needs to build and maintain models of them. As the application system interacts with a user, it can acquire knowledge of him and pass that knowledge on to the user model maintenance system for incorporation. We describe a prototype general user modelling system (hereafter called GUMS1) which we have implemented in Prolog. This system satisfies some of the desirable characteristics we discuss.
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