Active learning techniques have gained popularity in reducing human effort to annotate data instances for inducing a classifier. When faced with large quantities of unlabeled dat...
—The vision of the Semantic Web has brought about new challenges at the intersection of web research and data management. One fundamental research issue at this intersection is t...
Social networking applications have become very important web services that provide Internet-based platforms for their users to interact with their friends. With the advances in t...
Most frameworks for utility elicitation assume a predefined set of features over which user preferences are expressed. We consider utility elicitation in the presence of subjecti...
: The challenge of the semantic web is the provision of distributed information with well defined meaning, understandable for different parties. Particularly, applications should b...