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RECSYS
2015
ACM
8 years 3 months ago
A Probabilistic Model for Using Social Networks in Personalized Item Recommendation
Preference-based recommendation systems have transformed how we consume media. By analyzing usage data, these methods uncover our latent preferences for items (such as articles or...
Allison June-Barlow Chaney, David M. Blei, Tina El...
RECSYS
2015
ACM
8 years 3 months ago
Listener-Inspired Automated Music Playlist Generation
The objective of this PhD research is to deepen the understanding of how people listen to music and construct playlists. We believe that further insights into such mechanisms can ...
Andreu Vall
RECSYS
2015
ACM
8 years 3 months ago
Recommender Systems for the People - Enhancing Personalization in Web Augmentation
Web augmentation techniques allow the adaptation of websites on client side using browser extensions or plug-ins designed to run dedicated user scripts. However, while number and ...
Martin Wischenbart, Sergio Firmenich, Gustavo Ross...
RECSYS
2015
ACM
8 years 3 months ago
Measuring the Concentration Reinforcement Bias of Recommender Systems
In this paper, we propose new metrics to accurately measure the concentration reinforcement of recommender systems and the enhancement of the “long tail”. We also conduct a co...
Panagiotis Adamopoulos, Alexander Tuzhilin, Peter ...
RECSYS
2015
ACM
8 years 3 months ago
Tackling Cold-Start Users in Recommender Systems with Indoor Positioning Systems
In this paper, we present work-in-progress on a recommender system based on Collaborative Filtering that exploits location information gathered by indoor positioning systems. This...
Emanuel Lacic, Dominik Kowald, Matthias Traub, Gra...
RECSYS
2015
ACM
8 years 3 months ago
From Sensors to Songs: A Learning-Free Novel Music Recommendation System using Contextual Sensor Data
Traditional approaches for music recommender systems face the known challenges of providing new recommendations that users perceive as novel and serendipitous discoveries. Even wi...
Abhishek Sen, Martha Larson
RECSYS
2015
ACM
8 years 3 months ago
Network-Based Extension of Multi-Relational Factorization Models
Complex heterogeneous networks contain many types of relations, both local to a particular entity and distant in the network. Multi-relational factorization schemes that incorpora...
Fatemeh Vahedian, Robin D. Burke, Bamshad Mobasher
RECSYS
2015
ACM
8 years 3 months ago
Explaining Contextual Recommendations: Interaction Design Study and Prototype Implementation
We describe an architecture for generating context-aware recommendations along with detailed textual explanations to support the user in the decision-making process. CARE (Context...
Joanna Misztal, Bipin Indurkhya
RECSYS
2015
ACM
8 years 3 months ago
Probability-based Approach for Predicting E-commerce Consumer Behaviour Using Sparse Session Data
This paper describes some of the key properties of the proposed solution for the RecSys 2015 Challenge from the team Tøyvind thørrud. Three contributions will be highlighted: i)...
Øyvind H. Myklatun, Thorstein K. Thorrud, H...
RECSYS
2015
ACM
8 years 3 months ago
Automatic Recommendations of Categories for Geospatial Entities
Over the last years, thanks to Open Data initiative and the Semantic Web, there has been a vast increase on user contributed data. In several cases (e.g. OpenStreetMap, Geonames),...
Giorgos Giannopoulos, Nikos Karagiannakis, Dimitri...