The massive amount of statistical and text data available from government agencies has created a set of daunting challenges to both research and analysis communities. These proble...
Generating adequate recommendations for newcomers is a hard problem for a recommender system (RS) due to lack of detailed user profiles and social preference data. Empirical evide...
Patricia Victor, Chris Cornelis, Ankur Teredesai, ...
The widespread adoption of location-based services (LBS) raises increasing concerns for the protection of personal location information. A common strategy, referred to as obfuscati...
Maria Luisa Damiani, Elisa Bertino, Claudio Silves...
We analyze collective discourse, a collective human behavior in content generation, and show that it exhibits diversity, a property of general collective systems. Using extensive ...
Online social sharing sites are becoming very popular nowadays among Web users, who use these sites to share their favourite items and to discover interesting and useful items fro...