Title: Matching Media Contents with User Profiles by means of the Dempster-Shafer Theory,
Abstract: The media industry is increasingly personalizing the offering of contents in
attempt to better target the audience. This requires to analyze the
relationships that goes established between users and content they enjoy,
looking at one side to the content characteristics and on the other to the user
profile, in order to find the best match between the two. In this paper we
suggest to build that relationship using the Dempster-Shafer's Theory of
Evidence, proposing a reference model and illustrating its properties by means
of a toy example. Finally we suggest possible applications of the model for
tasks that are common in the modern media industry.