User Profiling - A Short Review

@article{Cufoglu2014UserP,
  title={User Profiling - A Short Review},
  author={Ayse Cufoglu},
  journal={International Journal of Computer Applications},
  year={2014},
  volume={108},
  pages={1-9}
}
  • A. Cufoglu
  • Published 18 December 2014
  • Computer Science
  • International Journal of Computer Applications
In Today’s technology driven world user profiles are the virtual representation of each user and they include a variety of user information such as personal, interest and preference data. These profiles are the outcome of the user profiling process and they are essential to service personalization. Different methods, techniques and algorithms have been proposed in the literature for the user profiling process. This paper aims to give an overview on the user profiling and its related concepts… 
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