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
Michael Küchler just finished his master’s thesis. The goal of his master’s thesis was to investigate the benefit of following other people’s recommendations with similar or partially similar restaurant preferences. More specifically, do people follow the recommendations of other people who… 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
Everybody is excited about Google Wave and curious about what new forms of interactions with other people become possible. One special thing about Google Wave are the Wavelets. Wavelets are a form of collaboration workspace where people chat and share… Continue Reading
Our current work on a ontology-based decision tree algorithm to learn user preferences was accepted and published at 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2008 in Karlsruhe (Germany). The paper is available online at CEUR-WS.org as volume 401. It was… Continue Reading