DS1PTS - Personalized Communication Systems

Course specification
Course title		Personalized Communication Systems
Acronym		DS1PTS
Study programme		Electrical Engineering and Computing
Module		Telecommunications and Information Technologies
Type of study		doctoral studies
Lecturer (for classes)		professor PhD Milan Bjelica
Lecturer/Associate (for practice)
Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)
ESPB		9.0	Status	elective
Condition		None
The goal		Introduce the students to the state-of-the-art in personalized systems and applications design.
The outcome		The students will be able to get involved into research and design work in this area.
Contents
Contents of lectures		Importance of personalization. Procedures for adding personalized features to content and applications. Recommender systems. Internet search. Mobile applications. Personalization under special and atypical usage scenarios.
Contents of exercises		Personalized application design.
Literature
Ricci, F.; Rokach, L.; Shapira, B.; Kantor, P.B. (Eds.): Recommender Systems Handbook, Springer, 2011 (Original title) Milan Bjelica, Ana Perić: “Adaptive Feedback Schemes for Personalized Content Retrieval”, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Issue 3, Volume 57, pp. 1251-1257, August 2011 (Original title) Milan Bjelica: “Unobtrusive Relevance Feedback for Personalized TV Program Guides”, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Issue 2, Volume 57, pp. 658-663, May 2011 (Original title) Milan Bjelica: “Experiment with User Modeling for Communication Service Retrieval”, IEEE Communications Letters, Issue 10, Volume 12, pp. 797-799, October 2008 (Original title)
Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
Lectures	Exercises	OTC	Study and Research	Other classes
6
Methods of teaching		Consultations and study research work
Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
Pre obligations		Points	Final exam	Points
Activites during lectures		0	Test paper	10
Practical lessons		0	Oral examination	20
Projects		70
Colloquia		0
Seminars		0