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Similarity Weighting Schemes for Collaborative Filtering

Recently I presented a paper on the effects of similarity weighting schemes on collaborative filtering recommender systems at the 27th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, more specificall in the Track on Trust, Reputation, Evidence and Collaborative Know-How.

I received a few questions about the presentation, this post aims at answering some of them, and provide [...]

2nd Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation

Last week we got notification from the IUI workshop chairs that our project proposal for the 2nd Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation had been accepted to the 2012 Intelligent User Interfaces Conference.

This year the organising team consists of Ernesto De Luca, Matthias Böhmer, Ed Chi and myself.

We’re hoping to attract a [...]

UMAP2011 and IJCAI2011

I’m currently preparing myself for two weeks of Catalan sun, first in Girona for UMAP2011 and then another week in Barcelona for IJCAI2011. Not having been to either of these conferences before, I am (needless to say) quite excited.

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#RecSys2010

RecoMMender Systems

If you’re reading this, you might have read my previous posts about RecSys2010, and in that case you might know that I had axtremely high expectations for this year’s RecSys conference, and I was not dissappointed.

The conference program had been extended from last year and now included two days of workshops: [...]

#RecSys2010 day 0

I’m in Barcelona, at a hotel a stone’s throw from Parc de la Ciutadella, getting ready for RecSys2010.

Arrived here yesterday and spent most of the day in my hotel room working on my slides for my presentation at the Doctoral Symposium tomorrow. Or at least, I planned on working on them. This being my [...]

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