Although the broad social and business success of recommender systems has been
achieved across several domains, there is still a long way to go in terms of user satisfaction …

More and more web users keep up with newest information through information streams
such as the popular micro-blogging website Twitter. In this paper we studied content …

Programmatic advertising is a nascent and rapidly growing information technology
phenomenon that reacts to, and impacts upon, consumers and their behavior. Despite its …

Serendipity has a long tradition in the history of science as having played a key role in many
significant discoveries. Computer scientists, valuing the role of serendipity in discovery, have …

We present methods to automatically identify and recommend sub-tasks to help people
explore and accomplish complex search tasks. Although Web searchers often exhibit …

News readership is shifting to the Internet because of accessibility, inexpensive technology,
and free content. The prevalence of news on the Web provides opportunities for people to …

Under what conditions is serendipity most likely to occur? How much is serendipity
influenced by what a person brings to the process, and how much by the environment in …

Introduction: Information encountering (finding information while searching for some other
information), is a type of opportunistic discovery of information that complements purposeful …

We present a communication support system, namely We-toon, that can bridge the webtoon
writers and artists during sketch revision (ie, character design and draft revision). In the …

While serendipity is generally considered a spark for innovation and new knowledge, the
triggers for serendipity appear infinite and consequently information systems' support for …