Abstract. We propose an approach for modeling the navigational behavior of Web users based on task-level patterns. The discovered “tasks” are characterized probabilistically as...
Reciprocity is a pervasive concept that plays an important role in governing people’s behavior, judgments, and thus their social interactions. In this paper we present an analys...
Web users use search engine to find useful information on the Internet. However current web search engines return answer to a query independent of specific user information need. S...
Collaborative filtering aims at learning predictive models of user preferences, interests or behavior from community data, i.e. a database of available user preferences. In this ...
We propose a Web recommendation system based on a maximum entropy model. Under the maximum entropy principle, we can combine multiple levels of knowledge about users’ navigation...