2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/31099Information personalization is fertile ground for application of AI techniques. In this article I relate personalization to the ability to capture partial information in an information-seeking interaction. The specific focus is on personalizing interactions at web sites. Using ideas from partial evaluation and explanation-based generalization, I present a modeling methodology for reasoning about personalization. This approach helps identify seven tiers of `personable traits' in web sites.Artificial IntelligenceInformation RetrievalH.3.5; H.4.2; H.5.4; I.2.6; K.8The Traits of the Personabletext