The fast growth of online communities and increasing popularity of internet-accessing smart
devices have significantly changed the way people consume and share music. As an …

Context-aware recommender systems (CARS) take contextual conditions into account when
providing item recommendations. In recent years, context-aware matrix factorization (CAMF) …

Context awareness is increasingly gaining applicability in interactive ubiquitous mobile
computing systems. In order to apply this concept in design of applications for dynamic …

The design of recommendation algorithms aware of the user's context has been the subject
of great interest in the scientific community, especially in the music domain where contextual …

New distribution channels like music streaming platforms paved way for making more and
more diverse music available to users. Thus, music recommender systems got in the focus of …

The task of designing a recommender system is a complex process. Because of the many
technological advancements that may be included in a recommender system, engineers are …

The digitization of music, the emergence of online streaming platforms and mobile apps
have dramatically changed the ways we consume music. Today, much of the music that we …

Recommender systems are currently software tools that are focused on providing users with
the best choices in an overloaded search space of possible options. Hence, group …

In a ubiquitous computing scenario, characterized by pervasive technologies, tourists can
get assistance from mobile technologies in planning their trips. In a context where more and …

A shortcoming of current approaches for music recommendation is that they consider user-
specific characteristics only on a very simple level, typically as some kind of interaction …