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Recommender systems engage user profiles and appropriate filtering techniques to assist users in finding more relevant information over the large volume of information. User profiles play an important role in the success of recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-09-02 Bahram Amini , Roliana Ibrahim , Mohd Shahizan Othman

Modeling users for the purpose of identifying their preferences and then personalizing services on the basis of these models is a complex task, primarily due to the need to take into consideration various explicit and implicit signals,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Amit Tiroshi , Tsvi Kuflik , Shlomo Berkovsky , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

Personality is a psychological factor that reflects people's preferences, which in turn influences their decision-making. We hypothesize that accurate modeling of users' personalities improves recommendation systems' performance. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Xinyuan Lu , Min-Yen Kan

One of the most essential parts of any recommender system is personalization-- how acceptable the recommendations are from the user's perspective. However, in many real-world applications, there are other stakeholders whose needs and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Himan Abdollahpouri

Soon after the invention of the Internet, the recommender system emerged and related technologies have been extensively studied and applied by both academia and industry. Currently, recommender system has become one of the most successful…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Zhenhua Dong , Zhe Wang , Jun Xu , Ruiming Tang , Jirong Wen

Recommender systems (RS) play a core role in various domains, including business analytics, helping users and companies make appropriate decisions. To optimize service quality, related technologies focus on constructing user profiles by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Hui Zhang , Jiayu Liu

Recommender systems have been successfully applied to assist decision making by producing a list of item recommendations tailored to user preferences. Traditional recommender systems only focus on optimizing the utility of the end users who…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Yong Zheng

Accurately modeling user preferences is vital not only for improving recommendation performance but also for enhancing transparency in recommender systems. Conventional user profiling methods, such as averaging item embeddings, often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Milad Sabouri , Masoud Mansoury , Kun Lin , Bamshad Mobasher

In this position paper, we discuss the merits of simulating privacy dynamics in recommender systems. We study this issue at hand from two perspectives: Firstly, we present a conceptual approach to integrate privacy into recommender system…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Peter Müllner , Elisabeth Lex , Dominik Kowald

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into daily life, particularly through information retrieval and recommender systems, has necessitated advanced user modeling and profiling techniques to deliver personalized experiences. These…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Erasmo Purificato , Ludovico Boratto , Ernesto William De Luca

Tools for filtering the World Wide Web exist, but they are hampered by the difficulty of capturing user preferences in such a dynamic environment. We explore the acquisition of user profiles by unobtrusive monitoring of browsing behaviour…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 S. E. Middleton , D. C. De Roure , N. R. Shadbolt

Recommender systems attempt to reduce information overload and retain customers by selecting a subset of items from a universal set based on user preferences. While research in recommender systems grew out of information retrieval and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Saverio Perugini , Marcos Andre Goncalves , Edward A. Fox

In order to improve the accuracy of recommendations, many recommender systems nowadays use side information beyond the user rating matrix, such as item content. These systems build user profiles as estimates of users' interest on content…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Luca Luciano Costanzo , Yashar Deldjoo , Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Markus Schedl , Paolo Cremonesi

Eliciting the preferences and needs of tourists is challenging, since people often have difficulties to explicitly express them, especially in the initial phase of travel planning. Recommender systems employed at the early stage of planning…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Mete Sertkan , Julia Neidhardt , Hannes Werthner

Recommender systems can be characterized as software solutions that provide users convenient access to relevant content. Traditionally, recommender systems research predominantly focuses on developing machine learning algorithms that aim to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Dietmar Jannach

As more information becomes available electronically, tools for finding information of interest to users becomes increasingly important. The goal of the research described here is to build a system for generating comprehensible user…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Eric Bloedorn , Inderjeet Mani , T. Richard MacMillan

Studying human factors has gained a lot of interest in recommender systems research recently. User experience plays a vital role in tourism recommender systems since user satisfaction is the main factor that guarantees the success of such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Asal Nesar Noubari , Wolfgang Wörndl

With the emergence of personality computing as a new research field related to artificial intelligence and personality psychology, we have witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of personality-aware recommendation systems. Unlike…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Sahraoui Dhelim , Nyothiri Aung , Mohammed Amine Bouras , Huansheng Ning , Erik Cambria

Conversational information access is an emerging research area. Currently, human evaluation is used for end-to-end system evaluation, which is both very time and resource intensive at scale, and thus becomes a bottleneck of progress. As an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Shuo Zhang , Krisztian Balog

Novel data sources bring new opportunities to improve the quality of recommender systems and serve as a catalyst for the creation of new paradigms on personalized recommendations. Impressions are a novel data source containing the items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Fernando B. Pérez Maurera , Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Pablo Castells , Paolo Cremonesi