Designing Personalized User Experiences for eCommerce: An Information Architecture Perspective
http://instone.org/files/InstonePersPosPaper.pdf

Instone, Keith
Instone.org
2003

Abstract:

You can think of the information architecture as the “glue” that holds a web site together - the part that hooks the content up with the user interface. It provides the large buckets to place products into and that users can browse by. It specifies the meta-information that ties pieces of content together and enables things like cross-selling.