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2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Do You Have a Pop Face? Here is a Pop Song. Using Profile Pictures to Mitigate the Cold-start Problem in Music Recommender Syste
When a new user registers to a recommender system service, the system does not know her taste and cannot propose meaningful suggestions (cold-start problem). This preliminary work...
Eugenio Tacchini, Ramon Morros, Verónica Vi...
RECSYS
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Interaction Design in a Mobile Food Recommender System
One of the most important steps in building a recommender system is the interaction design process, which defines how the recommender system interacts with a user. It also shapes...
Mehdi Elahi, Mouzhi Ge, Francesco Ricci, Ignacio F...
RECSYS
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Inspection Mechanisms for Community-based Content Discovery in Microblogs
This paper presents a formative evaluation of an interface for inspecting microblog content. This novel interface introduces filters by communities, and network structure, as wel...
Nava Tintarev, Byungkyu Kang, Tobias Höllerer...
RECSYS
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
How to Interpret Implicit User Feedback?
Our research is focused on interpreting user preference from his/her implicit behavior. There are many types of relevant behavior e.g. time on page, scrolling, clickstream etc. wh...
Ladislav Peska, Peter Vojtás
RECSYS
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
HyPER: A Flexible and Extensible Probabilistic Framework for Hybrid Recommender Systems
As the amount of recorded digital information increases, there is a growing need for flexible recommender systems which can incorporate richly structured data sources to improve ...
Pigi Kouki, Shobeir Fakhraei, James R. Foulds, Mag...
RECSYS
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Conceptual Impact-Based Recommender System for CiteSeerx
CiteSeerx is a digital library for scientific publications written by Computer Science researchers. Users are able to retrieve relevant documents from the database by searching b...
Kevin Labille, Susan Gauch, Ann Smittu Joseph
RECSYS
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Recommending Fair Payments for Large-Scale Social Ridesharing
We perform recommendations for the Social Ridesharing scenario, in which a set of commuters, connected through a social network, arrange one-time rides at short notice. In particu...
Filippo Bistaffa, Alessandro Filippo, Georgios Cha...
RECSYS
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
FutureView: Enhancing Exploratory Image Search
Search algorithms in image retrieval tend to focus on giving the user more and more similar images based on queries that the user has to explicitly formulate. Implicitly, such sys...
Sayantan Hore, Dorota Glowacka, Ilkka Kosunen, Kum...
RECSYS
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
LocalRec'15: Workshop on Location-Aware Recommendations
The amount of available geo-referenced data has seen a dramatic explosion over the past few years. Human activities now generate digital traces that are annotated with location da...
Panagiotis Bouros, Neal Lathia, Matthias Renz, Fra...
RECSYS
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Parsimonious and Adaptive Contextual Information Acquisition in Recommender Systems
Context-Aware Recommender System (CARS) models are trained on datasets of context-dependent user preferences (ratings and context information). Since the number of context-depende...
Matthias Braunhofer, Ignacio Fernández-Tob&...