The ever-increasing amount of data available on the web is the result of the simplicity of
sharing data over the current Web. To retrieve relevant information efficiently from this huge …

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EXPLORATORY SEARCH: FROM FINDING TO UNDERSTANDING rom the earliest days of …

The fact that the existing Web allows people to effortlessly share data over the Internet has
resulted in the accumulation of vast amounts of information available on the Web. Therefore …

In this paper, we propose a model to operationalise serendipity in content-based
recommender systems. The model, called SIRUP, is inspired by the Silvia's curiosity theory …

In order to provide the user with more support in performing exploratory activities, recent
research has been focused on identifying the types of tasks users perform, and …

When reusing software architectural knowledge, such as design patterns or design
decisions, software architects need support for exploring architectural knowledge …

This paper investigates how to facilitate users' exploration through data graphs. The prime
focus is on knowledge utility, ie increasing a user's domain knowledge while exploring a …

There are growing arguments that linked data technologies can be utilised to enable user-
oriented exploratory search systems for the future Internet. Recently, search over linked data …

Abstract The importance of Linked Data lies on the fact that its practices and principles have
been adopted by an increasing number of data providers, resulting in the creation of a data …

This paper investigates how a user could be aided to explore linked data in a way leading to
expanding her domain knowledge. Earlier work has confirmed that users can gain …