An LDAP-based user modeling server and its evaluation

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 129-169

  Kobsa, Alfred ^a   Fink, Josef ^b  

^a Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

^b FRANKFURT UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Architecture; Directory server; Evaluation; LDAP; Performance; Scalability; User modeling server

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EVALUATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERFORMANCE;

DIRECTORY SERVER; HARDWARE PLATFORMS; LIGHTWEIGHT DIRECTORY ACCESS PROTOCOL (LDAP); RUNTIME PERFORMANCE; SCALABILITY; USER MODELING SERVER;

SERVERS;

EID: 33747092358     PISSN: 09241868     EISSN: 15731391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11257-006-9006-5     Document Type: Article

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