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      Capturing essential intrinsic user behaviour values for the design of comprehensive web-based personalized environments 

      Germanakos, Panagiotis; Tsianos, Nikos; Lekkas, Zacharias; Mourlas, Constantinos; Samaras, George S. (2008)
      Advances in Web-based oriented technologies and services are taking place with a considerable speed around the world. As communications and IT usage become an integral part of many people's lives and the available products ...
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      A distributed middleware infrastructure for personalized services 

      Dikaiakos, Marios D.; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D. (2004)
      In this paper, we present an overview of extensible Retrieval, Annotation and Caching Engine (eRACE), a modular and distributed intermediary infrastructure that collects information from heterogeneous Internet sources ...
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      The Electronic Road: Personalized Content Browsing 

      Wallace, M.; Karpouzis, K.; Stamou, G.; Moschovitis, G.; Kollias, S.; Schizas, Christos N. (2003)
      The effectiveness of a content browsing system, based on semantic content analysis, user profiling, and adaptation, is discussed. The various aspects of electronic road are also described. An user's navigation path through ...
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      Embracing cognitive aspects in web personalization environments - The adaptiveweb architecture 

      Germanakos, Panagiotis; Tsianos, Nikos; Lekkas, Zacharias; Mourlas, Constantinos; Belk, Marios; Samaras, George S. (2007)
      This paper presents a Web adaptation and personalization architecture that uses cognitive aspects as its core filtering element. The innovation of the proposed architecture focuses upon the creation of a comprehensive user ...
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      Embracing cognitive factors and Fuzzy Logic in adaptive interactive systems 

      Papatheocharous, Efi; Belk, Marios; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Samaras, George S. (2013)
      The increased demand of services on the Web to satisfy the diverse characteristics of users have resulted in a plethora of applications that aim to provide personalized services based on the heterogeneous needs and preferences ...
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      An experimental assessment of the use of cognitive and affective factors in adaptive educational hypermedia 

      Tsianos, Nikos; Lekkas, Zacharias; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Mourlas, Constantinos; Samaras, George S. (2009)
      In order to assess the positive effect and validity of personalization on the basis of users' cognitive and emotional characteristics, this study presents three subsequent experiments. The first experiment explores the ...
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      Implementing affect parameters in personalized web-based design 

      Lekkas, Zacharias; Tsianos, Nikos; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Mourlas, Constantinos; Samaras, George S. (2009)
      Researchers used to believe that emotional processes are beyond the scope of a scientific study. Recent advances in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, however, suggest that there is nothing mystical about ...
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      Intelligent authoring tools for enhancing mass customization of e-services: The smarTag framework 

      Germanakos, Panagiotis; Tsianos, Nikos; Lekkas, Zacharias; Mourlas, Constantinos; Belk, Marios; Samaras, George S. (2009)
      Mass customization should be more than just configuring a specific component (hardware or software), but should be seen as the co-design of an entire system, including services, experiences and human satisfaction at the ...
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      mPERSONA: Personalized portals for the wireless user: An agent approach 

      Panayiotou, Christoforos; Samaras, George S. (2004)
      The needs of the wireless and mobile user regarding information access and services are quite different than those of the desktop user. This need is not about browsing the Web but about receiving personalized services that ...
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      The PersonaCheck System for Personalizing M-Commerce Checkout Processes 

      Constantinides, Anthony G.; Belk, Marios; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Samaras, George S. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
      This demonstration paper presents a Web-based adaptive interactive system for personalizing the checkout process of M-Commerce Web environments, coined Persona Check. In particular, the system personalizes the visual and ...
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      Personalized portals for the wireless user based on mobile agents 

      Samaras, George S.; Panayiotou, Christoforos (2002)
      Wireless users rarely (if ever) benefit from Internet information services thus requiring new type of services and new ways for structuring the needed content. Personalization appears to be the most appropriate solution ...
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      Personalizing Web environments on user intrinsic characteristics 

      Tsianos, Nikos; Lekkas, Zacharias; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Mourlas, Constantinos; Samaras, George S. (2008)
      Individual differences in information processing, as derived from an approach that takes into account cognitive and emotional parameters, serve as a basis for setting a theoretical framework that addresses user profiling ...
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      Proposing a fuzzy adaptation mechanism based on cognitive factors of users for web personalization 

      Papatheocharous, Efi; Belk, Marios; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Samaras, George S. (2012)
      The increased demand of Web services and diverse characteristics of users have resulted in a plethora of applications that aim to provide personalized services based on the heterogeneous needs and preferences of users. ...
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      A semantic approach of an adaptive and personalized Web-based learning content - The case of AdaptiveWeb 

      Germanakos, Panagiotis; Tsianos, Nikos; Lekkas, Zacharias; Mourlas, Constantinos; Belk, Marios; Samaras, George S. (2007)
      Adapting to user context, individual features and behaviour patterns is a topic of great attention nowadays in the field of Web-based and mobile learning. A challenge is to design personalized interfaces and software ...
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      Towards implicit user modeling based on artificial intelligence, cognitive styles and web interaction data 

      Papatheocharous, Efi; Belk, Marios; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Samaras, George S. (2014)
      A key challenge of adaptive interactive systems is to provide a positive user experience by extracting implicitly the users' unique characteristics through their interactions with the system, and dynamically adapting and ...
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      User-centric profiling on the basis of cognitive and emotional characteristics: An empirical study 

      Tsianos, Nikos; Lekkas, Zacharias; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Mourlas, Constantinos; Samaras, George S. (2008)
      In order to clarify whether extending learners' profiles in an adaptive educational system to cognitive and emotional characteristics may have a positive effect on performance, we conducted an empirical study that consists ...
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      Using time and activity in personalization for the mobile user 

      Panayiotou, Christoforos; Andreou, Maria I.; Samaras, George S. (2006)
      Mobile clients present a new and more demanding breed of users. Solutions provided for the desktop users are often found inadequate to support this new breed of users. Personalization is such a solution. The moving user ...