Collection Service. It provides mechanisms for dynamically building meaningful collections (from the prospective of a given community). It supports information personalization on the basis of single user profiles, as well as on an individual’s behavior as a member of a community. It provides recommendations to satisfy the information needs of a user by exploiting both user and community profiles. It supports collaboration between members of virtual communities by creating a community working space based on the content of virtual collections. Figure 1 shows the interactions between the different components of the CYCLADES service. Here below a more detailed description of the single services is given in terms of the functionality that they offer.
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