Abstract Information Retrieval (IR) systems assist users in finding information from the
myriad of information resources available on the Web. A traditional characteristic of IR …

Privacy has been an enduring concern associated with commercial information technology
(IT) applications, in particular regarding the issue of personalization. IT-enabled …

Recommendation agents (RAs) are software agents that elicit the interests or preferences of
individual consumers for products, either explicitly or implicitly, and make recommendations …

Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to bring to the physical retail environment the kind of
mass personalisation that is already common in online commerce, delivering offers that are …

Current access paradigms for the Web, ie, direct access via search engines or database
queries and navigational access via static taxonomies, have recently been criticized …

This paper brings together research from two different fields–user modelling and web
ontologies–in attempt to demonstrate how recent semantic trends in web development can …

Searching for jobs online is an information intensive activity, because thousands of jobs are
posted on the Web daily and it takes a great deal of effort to find the right position. Job …

This paper explores two ways to help students locate most relevant resources in educational
digital libraries. One method gives a more comprehensive access to educational resources …

We explore the use of objective audio signal features to model the individualized
(subjective) perception of similarity between music files. We present MUSIPER, a content …

Many people from my generation and younger can hardly imagine what life would be like
without the World Wide Web. Currently, a large population uses the Web for keeping up-to …