Mining user preferences plays a critical role in many important applications such as customer relationship management (CRM), product and service recommendation, and marketing camp...
Bin Jiang, Jian Pei, Xuemin Lin, David W. Cheung, ...
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...
Personalization systems exploit preferences for providing users with only relevant data from the huge volume of information that is currently available. We consider preferences th...
We introduce a general model of refinement. This is defined in terms of what contexts an entity can appear in, and what observations can be made of it in those contexts. We show e...
Many of the recently proposed algorithms for learning feature-based ranking functions are based on the pairwise preference framework, in which instead of taking documents in isola...
Vitor R. Carvalho, Jonathan L. Elsas, William W. C...