Definition: Multimedia personalization is tailoring digital audiovisual content to its users, based on personal details or characteristics they provide. It allows a content provider to adapt specific multimedia content in accordance with individual standards, tastes and preferences. For example, movies can be personalized based on genre, cast, director, etc.

This paper is intended of provide an exposition to our ongoing research on integrating planning, constraint-based modelling and product ontology in the development of a matchmaker system. The overall aim of the matchmaker is to match a group of attributes of a product to the preferences of a customer. The models for the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) to support the customer-system interaction, the ontology based knowledge representation and the constraint based reasoning are described. The implementation framework for the model is also discussed. When completed, we expect the matchmaker software to be able to assist buyers and/or support human sellers in the merchandising of a variety of products.

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Web mining has matured as a field of basic and applied research in computer science in general and e-commerce in particular. In the last decade, WWW has emerged as an all encompassing technology that has revolutionized the way people live. Web browsing has become an integral part of their lifestyle. This need has led to rise of range of technologies that overcome the information overload problem on the web, which is termed as personalization of the web. In this paper, we present a survey that gives a precise and comprehensive understanding of work done in the last five years in the field of personalization. The paper reviews how each of the approaches cater to user needs and give examples of projects associated with some of these techniques. The paper also mentions few issues for further research in this domain, based on the survey. In the end, paper concludes citing a promising future of this area of research.