Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization and Recommender Systems in E-Commerce

Papers from the 2007 AAAI Workshop

Bamshad Mobasher, Sarabjot Singh Anand, Alfred Kobsa, and Dietmar Jannach, Program Cochairs

Technical Report WS-07-08
Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California

This technical report is also available in book and CD format.

Organizing Committee / vii
Bamshad Mobasher, Sarabjot Singh Anand, Alfred Kobsa, and Dietmar Jannach

Preface / vii
Bamshad Mobasher, Sarabjot Singh Anand, Alfred Kobsa, and Dietmar Jannach

Full Papers

[RS] Information Sources Selection Methodology for Recommender Systems Based on Intrinsic Characteristics and Trust Measure / 1
Silvana Aciar, Josep Lluis de la Rosa i Esteva, and Josefina López Herrera

[RS] A Document Recommendation System Blending Retrieval and Categorization Technologies / 9
Khalid Al-Kofahi, Peter Jackson, Mike Dahn, Charles Elberti, William Keenan, and John Duprey

[ITWP] Effectiveness of Crawling Attacks against Web-based Recommender Systems / 17
Runa Bhaumik, Robin Burke, and Bamshad Mobasher

[RS] A Common Framework and Metric for Recommender Systems: A Proposal / 27
Felix H. del-Olmo, Eduardo H. Martin, and Elena Gaudioso

[ITWP] The SeniorGezond Recommender: Exploration Put into Practice / 35
Vera Hollink, Maarten van Someren, Stephan ten Hagen, Marcel J. Hilgerson, and Ton J. M. Rövekamp

[ITWP] Evaluating the Use of Semantics in Collaborative Recommender Systems: A User Study / 46
Patricia Kearney, Mary Shapcott, Sarabjot S. Anand, and David Patterson

[ITWP] Learning Web Users Profiles with Relational Clustering Algorithms / 54
Nicolas Labroche

[ITWP] Personalizing Image Search Results on Flickr / 65
Kristina Lerman, Anon Plankprasopchop, and Chio Wong

[RS] A Stereotypes-Based Hybrid Recommender System for Media Items / 76
Guy Shani, Amnon Meisles, Yan Gleyzer, Lior Rokach, and David Ben-Shimon

[ITWP] Ontological User Profiles for Personalized Web Search / 84
Ahu Sieg, Bamshad Mobasher, and Robin Burke

[RS] Improving E-Commerce Recommender Systems by the Identification of Seasonal Products / 92
Henrik Stormer

[ITWP] Learning Query Reformulations for Personalized Web Search Using a Probabilistic Inference Network / 100
Erika Torres-Verdin and Manfred Huber

[RS] Improving Memory-based Collaborative Filtering Using a Factor-based Approach / 110
Zhenxue Zhang, Dongsong Zhang, and Zhiling Guo

Short Papers / Posters

[RS] Research Lines in Secure and Robust Recommender Systems / 118
Neil J. Hurley and Guénolé C. M. Silvestre

[RS] Truth Maintenance Task Negotiation in Multiagent Recommender System for Tourism / 122
Fabiana Lorenzi, Ana L. C. Bazzan, and Mara Abel

[RS] Generating Recommendation Dialogues from Product Models / 126
Sven Radde, Matthias Beck, and Burkhard Freitag

[RS] An Infrastructure for Participatory Media / 130
Aaditeshwar Seth

[RS] Rank Aggregation for Presentation-Centric Preference Estimation / 134
Evgeny Televitckiy and Carmel Domshlak

[RS] Introducing Context into Recommender Systems / 138
Wolfgang Woerndl and Johann Schlichter

[ITWP] Denotes papers from the Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization [RS] Denotes papers from the Workshop on Recommender Systems in E-Commerce