This article argues for the growing importance of quality metadata and the equation of that quality with precision and semantic grounding. Such semantic grounding requires metadat...
The rapid expansion of Internet based services has created opportunities for ICT firms to collect and use, in an unauthorized way, information about individuals (e.g. customers, pa...
Athanassios N. Yannacopoulos, Costas Lambrinoudaki...
Recommender systems have emerged as an effective decision tool to help users more easily and quickly find products that they prefer, especially in e-commerce environments. However...
The emergence of online labor markets makes it far easier to use individual human raters to evaluate materials for data collection and analysis in the social sciences. In this pap...
In this paper we consider the problem of eCommerce comparison shopping agents (shopbots) that are limited by capacity constraints. In light of the phenomenal increase both in dema...