Computational Intelligence for Recommender Systems

Contents of the session

Recommender Systems (RS) are software applications that suggest useful and interesting items to users in their decision-making while interacting with large information spaces. They recommend items of interest to users based on preferences they have expressed, either explicitly or implicitly. The ever-expanding volume and increasing complexity of information on the Web has therefore made such systems essential tools for users in a variety of information seeking or various e-applications. RS help overcome the information overload problem by exposing users to the most interesting items, and by offering novelty, surprise, and relevance. Recommender technology is hence the central piece of the information seeking puzzle. Computational Intelligence (CI) paradigms reveal to be potential tools to face the Web uncertainty. In particular, CI techniques may be properly exploited to handle Web usage data and develop Web-based applications tailored on users' preferences. Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following:

Case studies of RS implementations
Context-aware and multidimensional RS
Evaluation of RS
Novel paradigms of RS
Recommendation algorithms
Recommendation in social networks
RS interfaces
Scalability issues
Security and privacy
Semantic web technologies for RS
Theoretical aspects of RS
User modeling and RS

Co-Chairs

Assoc. Prof. Neveen Ghali, Al-Azhar University, Faculty of Science, Cairo, Egypt
Dr. Soumya Banerjee, Birla Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, Mesra, India
Professor Aboul Ella Hassanien, Cairo University, Faculty of Computers &Information, Information Technology Department

Contact information

Assoc. Prof. Neveen Ghali
E-mail:
Telephone: 02-0114567956
Fax: 02-02-33384881

Dr. Soumya Banerjee
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Professor Aboul Ella Hassanien
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URL: http://www.fci.cu.edu.eg/~abo/

Proceedings

HAIS'10 proceedings will be published by Springer in its series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. (Tentative) All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors who must register for the conference and pay the fee.

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