Collaborative Filtering, considered by many researchers as the most important technique for information filtering, has been extensively studied by both academic and industrial co...
A functional dependency is a logical relationship amongst the attributes that define a table of data. Specifically, a functional dependency holds when the values of a subset of ...
A common approach to designing Recommender Systems (RS) consists of asking users to explicitly rate items in order to collect feedback about their preferences. However, users have...
Xavier Amatriain, Josep M. Pujol, Nava Tintarev, N...
— Hybrid intelligent systems (HIS) are very successful in tackling problems comprising of more than one distinct computational subtask. For instance, decision-making problems are...
Indexing and ranking are two key factors for efficient and effective XML information retrieval. Inappropriate indexing may result in false negatives and false positives, and impro...