Data domain description techniques aim at deriving concise descriptions of objects belonging to a category of interest. For instance, the support vector domain description (SVDD) l...
Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) assist online users in their information-seeking and decision making tasks by supporting an interactive process. Although these processes...
Utility or preference elicitation is a critical component in many recommender and decision support systems. However, most frameworks for elicitation assume a predefined set of fe...
In this document, we describe a light-weighted ontology mediation method that allows users to send semantic queries to distant data repositories to browse for learning object meta...
Scientific literature with rich metadata can be represented as a labeled directed graph. This graph representation enables a number of scientific tasks such as ad hoc retrieval o...