A framework for computational serendipity

X Niu, F Abbas - Adjunct Publication of the 25th Conference on User …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we propose a framework for computational serendipity. The framework is used
in a recommender system context to find personalized serendipity and meanwhile stimulate …

An adaptive recommender system for computational serendipity

X Niu - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGIR International …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Serendipity is recognized as very challenging to simulate and stimulate in recommender
systems. In this paper, we adopt a novel approach to model and implement serendipity in a …

Rethinking serendipity in recommender systems

D Kotkov, A Medlar, D Glowacka - … of the 2023 Conference on Human …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems suggest items, such as movies or books, to users based on their
interests. These systems often suggest items that users are either already familiar with or …

A survey of serendipity in recommender systems

D Kotkov, S Wang, J Veijalainen - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2016 - Elsevier
Recommender systems use past behaviors of users to suggest items. Most tend to offer
items similar to the items that a target user has indicated as interesting. As a result, users …

Everybody, More or Less, likes Serendipity

V Maccatrozzo, E van Everdingen, L Aroyo… - Adjunct Publication of …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
In the digital era, personalisation systems are the typical way to deal with the massive
amount of information on the Web. ese systems decide in our place what we like, possibly …

Investigating serendipity in recommender systems based on real user feedback

D Kotkov, JA Konstan, Q Zhao… - Proceedings of the 33rd …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Over the past several years, research in recommender systems has emphasized the
importance of serendipity, but there is still no consensus on the definition of this concept and …

Serendipity in recommender systems: a systematic literature review

RJ Ziarani, R Ravanmehr - Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2021 - Springer
A recommender system is employed to accurately recommend items, which are expected to
attract the user's attention. The over-emphasis on the accuracy of the recommendations can …

[PDF][PDF] Adaptive Serendipity for Recommender Systems: Let It Find You.

MEK Badran, JB Abdo, W Al Jurdi, J Demerjian - ICAART (2), 2019 - academia.edu
Recommender systems are nowadays widely implemented in order to predict the potential
objects of interest for the user. With the wide world of the internet, these systems are …

A serendipity-oriented greedy algorithm for recommendations

D Kotkov, J Veijalainen, S Wang - International conference on web …, 2017 - jyx.jyu.fi
Most recommender systems suggest items to a user that are popular among all users and
similar to items the user usually consumes. As a result, a user receives recommendations …

The impacts of item features and user characteristics on users' perceived serendipity of recommendations

N Wang, L Chen, Y Yang - Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Serendipity-oriented recommender systems have increasingly been recognized as useful to
overcome the" filter bubble" problem of accuracy-oriented recommenders, by recommending …