What makes a place or a location interesting for you? Well, your favorite bars, clubs or public places may cross your mind right now and you’ll think further to unique spots or sights in your local area or popular places… Continue Reading
Reto Zenger just finished his master’s thesis. The goal of his master’s thesis was to investigate if the concept of collaborative filtering can be applied to cross-project defect prediction. But first, you’ll need a little background. One research field in… Continue Reading
Thomas Kaul just finished his bachelor’s thesis. The vision for his bachelor’s thesis was to create a computer program or rather an agent that plays Texas Hold’em to beat a specific human player in 1 vs 1. For instance, the… Continue Reading
Matthias Z’brun just finished his master’s thesis. The goal of his master’s thesis was to investigate how, when, and when not ratings and trust inferencing in social networks force good behavior of suppliers and consumers in two-sided online markets. To… Continue Reading
Thomas Maurer just finished his master’s thesis. The goal of his master’s thesis was to use the location information about people with similar preferences rather than structured information about places to identify interesting locations. The underlying assumption is that locations… Continue Reading
Some research has already been done investigating Web-based social networks and its applicability for different tasks such as trust inferrencing with trust networks or collaborative filtering respectively recommender systems. My master student Reto Hodel applied social network analysis to a… Continue Reading
I advised together with Gerald Reif the master thesis of Tobias Bannwart about a personal cross-site movie recommender system that is implemented as Firefox add-on. The add-on is known as OMORE and can be downloaded. We decided to bring OMORE… Continue Reading
Online stores or Web page bring information about a myriad of items such as books, CDs, restaurants or movies at the user’s fingertips. Although, the Web reduces the barrier to the information, the user is overwhelmed by the number of… Continue Reading
Our current work on a probabilistic approach to compute partial user preference similarities was accepted and published at the 1st International Workshop on Inductive Reasoning and Machine Learning for the Semantic Web (IRMLeS) at the 6th European Semantic Web Conference… Continue Reading
Together with Marc Vontobel’s main advisor Gerald Reif, I successfully advised and supported Marc with his bachelor thesis. He was my first student I advised at all. He reenginered Purple Leaf – a party portal – and investigated the impact… Continue Reading