Abstract Virtual Customer Assistants (VCAs) are revolutionizing the way users interact with
machines. VCAs allow a far more natural interaction, and are gaining an increasingly large …

Abstract Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is susceptible to security threats despite all the
network programmability and flexibility offered, and hence SDN must be safeguarded. This …

Users of food recommender systems typically prefer popular recipes, which tend to be
unhealthy. To encourage users to select healthier recommendations by making more …

Digital Assistants are overgrowing in the mobile application industry and are now
implemented in various commercial devices. So far, their use in the health domain is limited …

In this article, we present MyrrorBot, a personal digital assistant implementing a natural
language interface that allows the users to:(i) access online services, such as music, video …

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into daily life, particularly through information
retrieval and recommender systems, has necessitated advanced user modeling and …

Recommender systems (RSs) are systems that produce individualized recommendations as
output or drive the user in a personalized way to interesting or useful objects in a space of …

Self-actualization is the process of striving toward full potential and achieving higher goals in
one's life. Originally studied in psychology, this concept has been adopted by various …

The phenomenon of hate messages on the web is unfortunately in continuous expansion
and evolution. Even if the big companies that offer their users a social network service have …

Users of online recipe websites tend to prefer unhealthy foods. Their popularity undermines
the healthiness of traditional food recommender systems, as many users lack nutritional …