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Collaborative and Social Information Retrieval and Access: Techniques for Improved User Modeling
Edited By: Max Chevalier, University of Toulouse, IRIT (UMR 5505), France; Christine Julien, University of Toulouse, IRIT (UMR 5505), France; Chantal Soule-Dupuy, University of Toulouse, IRIT (UMR 5505), France
Table of Contents:
Section I: User Modeling in Collaborative and Social Information Retrieval and Access (CSIRA)
Chapter I: State-of-the-Art Recommender Systems
    Laurent Candillier, Orange Labs Lannion, France
    Kris Jack, Orange Labs Lannion, France
    Françoise Fessant, Orange Labs Lannion, France
    Frank Meyer, Orange Labs Lannion, France

Chapter II: Computing Recommendations with Collaborative Filtering

    Neal Lathia, University College London, UK

Section II: Advances in User Modeling in CSIRA
Chapter III: Analyzing Communal Tag Relationships for Enhanced Navigation and User Modeling

    Edwin Simpson, HP Labs, UK
    Mark H. Butler, HP Labs, UK

Chapter IV: Adaptive User Profiles

    Steve Cayzer, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, UK
    Elke Michlmayr, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Chapter V: Modeling Users for Adaptive Information Retrieval by Capturing User Intent

    Eugene Santos, Jr., Dartmouth College, USA
    Hien Nguyen, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, USA

Chapter VI: Ontology-Based User Competencies Modeling for E-Learning Recommender Systems

    Mihaela Brut, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
    Florence Sedes, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France
    Corinne Zayani, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France

Section III: Improved User Modeling: Application of CSIRA
Chapter VII: Combining Relevance Information in a Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval Environment

    Colum Foley, Dublin City University, Ireland
    Alan F. Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland
    Gareth J. F. Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland

Chapter VIII: DemonD: A Social Search Engine Built Upon the Actor-Network Theory

    Charles Delalonde, EDF R&D, France Eddie Soulier, Université de Technologie de Troyes, France

Chapter IX: COBRAS: Cooperative CBR Bibliographic Recommender System

    Hager Karoui, Université Paris XIII, France

Chapter X: Music Recommendation by Modeling User’s Preferred Perspectives of Content, Singer/Genre and Popularity

    Zehra Cataltepe, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
    Berna Altinel, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

Chapter XI: Web Content Recommendation Methods Based on Reinforcement Learning

    Nima Taghipour, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
    Ahmad Kardan, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran

Chapter XII: Collaborating Agents for Adaptation to Mobile Users

    Angela Carrillo-Ramos, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
    Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
    Marlène Villanova-Oliver, Grenoble Computer Science Laboratory, France
    Jérôme Gensel, Grenoble Computer Science Laboratory, France
    Yolande Berbers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Section IV: Selected Readings
Chapter XIII: A User-Centered Approach to the Retrieval of Information in an Adaptive Web Site

    Cristina Gena, Università di Torino, Italy
    Liliana Ardissono, Università di Torino, Italy

Chapter XIV: Personalized Information Retrieval in a Semantic-Based Learning Environment

    Antonella Carbonaro, University of Bologna, Italy
    Rodolfo Ferrini, University of Bologna, Italy

Chapter XV: A Semantic Web Based Approach for Context-Aware User Query Formulation and Information Retrieval

    Hanh Huu Hoang, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
    Tho Manh Nguyen, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
    A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria