Constructing adaptive configuration dialogs using crowd data

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serval:BIB_D5F7550A978C
Type
Inproceedings: an article in a conference proceedings.
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Publications
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Title
Constructing adaptive configuration dialogs using crowd data
Title of the conference
Proceedings of the 29th ACM/IEEE international conference on Automated software engineering - ASE '14
Author(s)
Hamidi S., Andritsos P., Liaskos S.
Publisher
ACM
Address
Vasteras, Sweden
ISBN
9781450330138
Publication state
Published
Issued date
09/2014
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Series
Automated Software Engineering
Pages
485-490
Language
english
Abstract
As modern software systems grow in size and complexity so do their configuration possibilities. Users are easy to be confused and overwhelmed by the amount of choices they need to make in order to fit their systems to their exact needs. We propose a method to construct adaptive configuration elicitation dialogs through utilizing crowd wisdom. A set of configuration preferences in the form of association rules is first mined from a crowd configuration data set. Possible configuration elicitation dialogs are then modeled through a Markov Decision Process (MDP). Association rules are used to inform the model about configuration decisions that can be automatically inferred from knowledge already elicited earlier in the dialog. This way, an MDP solver can search for elicitation strategies which maximize the expected amount of automated decisions, reducing thereby elicitation effort and increasing user confidence of the result. The method is applied to the privacy configuration of Facebook.
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