Shlomo Berkovsky

Research Team Leader

Contact

GPO Box 1538
Hobart TAS 7001

Tel: 61 3 6232 5536
Fax: 61 3 6232 5050
Email

Projects

• TLI - Tailored Lifestyle Information

Science Area

• Human Factors

Biography

I am a Research Scientist at the TLI project, Tasmanian ICT Centre. The project project aims to provide overweight individuals and their families with health and lifestyle information relevant to them.

My broad research interests are user modeling and personalization as a mean to overcome information overloading. In particular, I am interested in the mediation of user models, ubiquitous user modeling, recommender systems, collaborative and content-based filtering, context-aware personalization, personalized content generation, and use of machine learning and data mining techniques in user modeling and personalization. My prior research interest include text and web mining, semantic web and peer-to-peer computing.

Before joining CSIRO, I have been a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Melbourne. I have graduated from the University of Haifa. The topic of my PhD thesis was "Mediation of user models for enhanced personalization in recommender systems". The topic of my MSc thesis was "Unspecified ontologies for Peer-to-Peer E-Commerce applications".

Academic Qualifications

2007	PhD(summa cum laude), CS Dept., University of Haifa
2004	MSc(cum laude), CS Dept., University of Haifa
2002	BSc, CS Dept., University of Haifa

Achievements & Awards

2006	Best Paper Award, International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems
2005	Research Recognition Award, Caesarea Rothschild Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science

Summary of Science & Technical Output

Science Citizenship

2006-2010

Co-Organizer, International Workshop on Ubiquitous User Modeling

Top 10 Publications

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Shlomo Berkovsky, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci, "Cross-Representation Mediation of User Models", User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, vol. 19 (1-2), pp. 35-63, 2009.
Fabian Bohnert, Ingrid Zukerman, Shlomo Berkovsky, Timothy Baldwin, Elizabeth Sonenberg, "Using Interest and Transition Models to Predict Visitor Locations in Museums", Artificial Intelligence Communications, vol. 21 (2-3), pp. 195-202, 2008.
Shlomo Berkovsky, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci, "Mediation of User Models for Enhanced Personalization in Recommender Systems", User Modeling and User- Adapted Interaction, vol. 18 (3), pp. 245-286, 2008.
Shlomo Berkovsky, Yaniv Eytani, Larry Manevitz, "Efficient Collaborative Filtering in Content-Addressable Spaces", International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 21 (2), pp. 265-289, 2007.
Yosi Ben-Asher, Shlomo Berkovsky, "Semantic Data Management in Peer-to- Peer E-Commerce Applications", Journal on Data Semantics, vol. 6, pp. 115-142, 2006.
Yosi Ben-Asher, Shlomo Berkovsky, Eduard Gelzin, Ariel Tammam, Miri Vilkhov, Edi Shmueli, "Using J2EE/.NET Clusters for Parallel Computations of Join Queries in Distributed Databases", Journal on Digital Information Management, vol. 3 (2), pp. 76-81, 2005.
Shlomo Berkovsky, Yaniv Eytani, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci, "Enhancing Privacy and Preserving Accuracy of a Distributed Collaborative Filtering", the ACM Recommender Systems Conference, pp. 9-16, Minneapolis, MN, October 2007.
Shlomo Berkovsky, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci, "Cross-Domain Mediation in Collaborative Filtering", the International Conference on User Modeling, pp. 365-369, Corfu, Greece, June 2007.
Shlomo Berkovsky, Dan Goldwasser, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci, "Identifying Inter-Domain Similarities through Content-Based Analysis of Hierarchical Web- Directories", the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 789-790, Riva del Garda, Italy, August 2006.
Shlomo Berkovsky, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci, "Cross-Technique Mediation of User Models", the International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, pp. 21-30, Dublin, Ireland, June 2006 [Best Paper Award].

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