Utility elicitation is an important component of many applications, such as decision support systems and recommender systems. Such systems query users about their preferences and ...
Automated extraction of structured data from Web sources often leads to large heterogeneous knowledge bases (KB), with data and schema items numbering in the hundreds of thousands...
It is a kind of privacy infraction in personalized web service if the user profile submitted to one web site transferred to another site without user permission. That can cause th...
We propose a method to estimate the detailed 3D shape of a person from images of that person wearing clothing. The approach exploits a model of human body shapes that is learned fr...
Traditional adaptive filtering systems learn the user’s interests in a rather simple way – words from relevant documents are favored in the query model, while words from irre...