Our natural tendency to be curious is increasingly important now that we are exposed to vast
amounts of information. We often cope with this overload by focusing on the familiar …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the changing research practices of
historians, and to contrast their experiences of serendipity in physical and digital information …

The growing amount of online information today has increased opportunity to discover
interesting and useful information. Various recommender systems have been designed to …

This paper examines the nature and extent of e-government activities in South Africa. E-
Government refers to the practice of leveraging ICT to deliver services to employees (G2E) …

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 …

Serendipity has been recognized to have the potential of enhancing unexpected information
discovery. This study shows that decomposing the concept of serendipity into …

The maturation of semantic technologies and the growing popularity of the Linked Open
Data (LOD) cloud make it possible to expose linked semantic data sets to end users in order …

This paper presents a novel approach for supporting serendipitybased information retrieval
systems with regard of different information seeking motivations like seeking for specific …

The number of transient migrants around the world is increasing, and with it a corresponding
growth in research publications. This is particularly the case for a specific group of transient …

As our technological capabilities for filling information needs improve, developers seek to
more effective ways to support different aspects of the users' experience. One aspect that is …