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JIDM
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Evaluation of Conditional Preference Queries
The need for incorporating preference querying in database technology is a very important issue in a variety of applications ranging from e-commerce to personalized search engines....
Fabiola S. F. Pereira, Sandra de Amo
DEXA
2008
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Optimal Preference Elicitation for Skyline Queries over Categorical Domains
When issuing user-specific queries, users often have a vaguely defined information need. Skyline queries identify the most "interesting" objects for users' incomplet...
Jongwuk Lee, Gae-won You, Seung-won Hwang, Joachim...
IWC
2008
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13 years 3 months ago
I hate you! Disinhibition with virtual partners
This paper presents a descriptive lexical analysis of spontaneous conversations between users and the 2005 Loebner prize winning chatterbot, Jabberwacky. The study was motivated i...
Antonella De Angeli, Sheryl Brahnam
IJCAI
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Explicit vs Implicit Profiling - A Case-Study in Electronic Programme Guides
In this paper, we evaluate the use of implicit interest indicators as the basis for user profiling in the Digital TV domain. Research in more traditional domains, such as Web brow...
Derry O'Sullivan, Barry Smyth, David C. Wilson
SIGMOD
2001
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multi-parametric Ranked Queries
Users often need to optimize the selection of objects by appropriately weighting the importance of multiple object attributes. Such optimization problems appear often in operation...
Vagelis Hristidis, Nick Koudas, Yannis Papakonstan...