Recommender systems, notably collaborative and hybrid information filtering approaches, vitally depend on neighborhood formation, i.e., selecting small subsets of most relevant pee...
Today's world is characterized by the multiplicity of interconnections through many types of links between the people, that is why mining social networks appears to be an impo...
This paper presents an analysis of the correlation of annotated information unit (textual) tags and geographical identification metadata geotags. Despite the increased usage of ge...
—This paper reports preliminary results of an ongoing ethnographic study of people’s attitudes towards and adoption of Google Latitude, a location-tracking technology for mobil...
Recommender algorithms have been quite successfully employed in a variety of scenarios from filtering applications to recommendations of movies and books at Amazon.com. However, a...