To understand users’ acceptance of the emerging trend of personality-based recommenders (PBR), we evaluated an existing PBR using the technology acceptance model (TAM). We also ...
Some recent works have shown that the “perfect” selection of the best IR system per query could lead to a significant improvement on the retrieval performance. Motivated by thi...
Matching and searching computations play an important role in the indexing of data. These computations are typically encoded in very tight loops with a single index variable and a...
—Caching frequently accessed data items on the client side is an effective technique for improving performance in a mobile environment. Classical cache invalidation strategies ar...
This paper details results of an experiment to empirically evaluate the effectiveness and user acceptability of human-like synthetic agents in a multi-modal electronic retail scen...
Helen McBreen, Paul Shade, Mervyn A. Jack, Peter J...