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Similarity Weighting Schemes for Collaborative Filtering

alan — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 10:48:11 +0000

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

alan — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:22:26 +0000

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

alan — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:36:34 +0000

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.

At UMAP I will be presenting a poster evaluating how certain demographic data affects [...]

#RecSys2010

alan — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:51:51 +0000

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

alan — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:32:30 +0000

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 [...]

#RecSys2010 thoughts

alan — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 06:09:41 +0000

RecSys2010

Just over a week to go till this year’s Recommender Systems conference and I must say I am really looking forward to it. Out of the (not very many) conferences I’ve been to (WSDM2009, RecSys2009, ECML-PKDD2009, IUI2010), last year’s RecSys was the one I enjoyed most (IUI being a very close runner up). [...]

Workshop on Context-aware Retrieval and Recommendation

alan — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:08:17 +0000

Earlier today we got the acceptance notification of our workshop on Context-aware Retrieval and Recommendation which we will be organizing at next years (2011) Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) conference which will be held at Stanford University in February next year. [...]

Context-aware Movie Recommendation – CAMRa

alan — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:38:05 +0000

As I’ve written earlier, at this year’s RecSys we’re organizing a challenge on context-aware movie recommendation. The challenge is part of a joint event together with the workshop on Context-Aware Recommender Systems (CARS) and I’m anticipating both events to be very interesting.

We’re done with the reviewing and currently waiting for the camera ready versions [...]

#RecSys2010 Workshop

alan — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:31:54 +0000

It’s been official for a couple of days now, we got our workshop proposal for RecSys 2010 accepted.

The idea is to have a context-aware movie recommendation challenge. The challenge will be held as joint event with the Context-aware Recommender Systems workshop,which was held for the first time at last years’ RecSys. We’re co-orinating the [...]

IUI2010

alan — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:34:25 +0000

IUI2010

I’m currently at the 2010 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces in Hong Kong. We’re halfway through the programme, having heard sessions on Access/Brain Interfaces, Smart Reading, Intelligent Agents, Mobile Interaction and the workshops (Intelligent Visual Interfaces for Text Analysis, Multimodal Interfaces for Automotive Applications, Semantic Models for Adaptive Interactive Systems, Eye Gaze [...]