This paper explores how explanations within an online recommender agent (RA) affect
consumers' trust in the RA and their willingness to adopt its recommendations. The paper …

Abstract UIP—Ultra-Info Portal is an advanced application for accessing the Web-related
application that permits users to handle tasks using browser network environments. UIP …

This book can be presented in two different ways. Firstly, it introduces a particular
methodology to build adaptive Web sites and secondly, it presents the main concepts …

Existing news portals on the WWW aim to provide users with numerous articles that are
categorized into specific topics. Such a categorization procedure improves presentation of …

We present NPS, a novel non-intrusive web prefetching system that (1) utilizes only spare
resources to avoid interference between prefetch and demand requests at the server as well …

In this paper, a technique is presented that allows web sites viewers to build personalized
web pages, using specific thematic areas of their preferred sites. This technique, besides …

Web portals offer many services and wealth of content to Web users. However, most users
do not find interest in all the content present in these sites. Most of them visit some specific …

Intelligent web site is a new portal generation, able to improve its structure and content
based on the analysis of the user behavior. This paper focuses on modeling the visitor …

Redundant data transfers over the Web, can be mainly attributed to the repeated transfers of
unchanged data. Web caches and Web proxies are some of the solutions that have been …

Web portals today offer a variety of content and services to their users. This content can be
split into various categories and usually content semantically related is placed in the same …