In the conventional WWW search or P2P file sharing systems, users search for some information by using the Explicit Information such as keywords, addresses or content names. Howev...
Today user-centered information acquisition over collections of complex XML documents is increasingly in demand. To this end, preferences have become an important paradigm enablin...
We discuss information retrieval methods that aim at serving a diverse stream of user queries such as those submitted to commercial search engines. We propose methods that emphasi...
Hongyuan Zha, Zhaohui Zheng, Haoying Fu, Gordon Su...
In this paper, we tackle the problem of top-N context-aware recommendation for implicit feedback scenarios. We frame this challenge as a ranking problem in collaborative filterin...
Over the last years the means to collect personal data implicitly or explicitly over the Web and by various kinds of sensors and to combine data for profiling individuals has dram...