Recommender systems have the effect of guiding users in a personalized way to interesting
objects in a large space of possible options. Content-based recommendation systems try to …

In Today's technology driven world user profiles are the virtual representation of each user
and they include a variety of user information such as personal, interest and preference …

This work investigates personalized social search based on the user's social relations--
search results are re-ranked according to their relations with individuals in the user's social …

Recently, social tagging has become increasingly prevalent on the Internet which provides
an effective way for users to organize, manage, share and search for various kinds of …

Social tagging systems have grown in popularity over the Web in the last years on account
of their simplicity to categorize and retrieve content using open-ended tags. The increasing …

Web search personalization aims to adapt search results to a user based on his tastes,
interests and needs. The way in which such personal preferences are captured, modeled …

Basic content personalization consists in matching up the attributes of a user profile, in
which preferences and interests are stored, with the attributes of a content object. The Web …

Nowadays, several location-based services (LBSs) allow their users to take advantage of
information from the Web about points of interest (POIs) such as cultural events or …

Large-scale user contributed images with tags are easily available on photo sharing
websites. However, the noisy or incomplete correspondence between the images and tags …

Collaborative tagging systems are now popular tools for organising and sharing information
on the Web. While collaborative tagging offers many advantages over the use of controlled …