Crowdsourcing information systems are socio-technical systems that provide informational
products or services by harnessing the diverse potential of large groups of people via the …

Tagging has emerged as a powerful mechanism that enables users to find, organize, and
understand online entities. Recommender systems similarly enable users to efficiently …

The emergence of social networks and the vast amount of data that they contain about their
users make them a valuable source for personal information about users for recommender …

Recommender systems form an extremely diverse body of technologies and approaches.
The chapter aims to assist researchers and developers to identify the recommendation …

The continued increase in Web usage, in particular participation in folksonomies, reveals a
trend towards a more dynamic and interactive Web where individuals can organise and …

Smart TV, which enables viewers to conveniently access different multimedia contents and
interactive services in a single platform, is currently becoming popular. The work presented …

Micro-blogging is increasingly evolving from a daily chatting tool into a critical platform for
individuals and organizations to seek and share real-time news updates during …

Social interactions are one of the key factors to the success of conferences and similar
community gatherings. This paper describes a novel application that integrates data from the …

This paper investigates error-corrective language modeling using the perceptron algorithm
on word lattices. The resulting model is encoded as a weighted finite-state automaton, and is …

Creative industries constantly strive for fame and popularity. Though highly desirable,
popularity is not the only achievement artistic creations might ever acquire. Leaving a …