Dynamically modeling users with MODUS-SD and Kohonen´s map

Author

Galete, Lucas ; Pires Ramos, Milton ; Nievola, Julio Cesar ; Cabrera Paraiso, Emerson

Author_Institution

Programa de Pos-Grad. em Inf., Pontificia Univ. Catolica do Parana, Curitiba, Brazil

fYear

2013

fDate

27-29 June 2013

Firstpage

17

Lastpage

22

Abstract

The lack of tools for small software development teams leads us to propose an architecture to better support it. The multi-agent system (MAS) based architecture is called CSCW-SD. CSCW-SD has a module (MODUS-SD) that models users for better system customization and usability. In this paper, we present an enhancement to this module to help dynamically modeling the users as they interact with the system. In order to do that, we introduce an algorithm called GSOM that clusters user´s behavior (the extracted features) and automatically detects cluster boundaries in the resulting trained SOM network.

Keywords

feature extraction; groupware; multi-agent systems; self-organising feature maps; software development management; software tools; CSCW-SD; Kohonen Map; MAS based architecture; MODUS-SD module; SOM network; dynamically user modeling; feature extraction; multiagent system based architecture; software development teams; software tools; system customization; system usability; user behavior clusters; Adaptation models; Clustering algorithms; Computer architecture; Data models; Feature extraction; Heuristic algorithms; Training; clustering; collaborative software development; small teams; user modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD), 2013 IEEE 17th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Whistler, BC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6084-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSCWD.2013.6580933

Filename

6580933