The increasing prominence of information arising from a wide range of sources delivered
over electronic media has made traditional information retrieval systems less effective …

Purpose Belkin and Robertson (1976a) reflected on the ethical implications of theoretical
research in information science and warned that there was potential for abuse of knowledge …

Within the information overload on the web and the diversity of the user interests, it is
increasingly difficult for search engines to satisfy the user information needs. Personalized …

Most Web search engines use the content of the Web documents and their link structures to
assess the relevance of the document to the user's query. With the growth of the information …

The overload of the information available on the web, held with the diversity of the user
information needs and the ambiguity of their queries have led the researchers to develop …

The goal of search personalization is to tailor search results to individual users by taking into
account their profiles, which include their particular interests and preferences. As these latter …

With shrinking feature sizes of manufacturing processes, the occurrence of systematic
defects is expected to increase. In this paper, we present techniques for identifying potential …

It is now widely assumed in personalized information retrieval (IR) area that user interests
can provide substantial clues for document relevance estimation. User interests reflect …

Information systems that utilise contextual information have the potential of hel** a user
identify relevant information more quickly and more accurately than systems that work the …

Recommender systems have become an important tool to cope with the information
overload problem by acquiring data about user behavior. After tracing the user's behavior …