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In this paper we describe a browsing and searching personalization system for digitallibraries based on the use of ontologies for describing the relationships between all theelements which take part in a digital library scenario of use. The main goal of thisproject is to help the users of a digital library to improve their experience of use bymeans of two complementary strategies: first, by maintaining a complete history recordof his or her browsing and searching activities, which is part of a navigational userprofile which includes preferences and all the aspects related to community involvement; and second, by reusing all the knowledge which has been extracted from previous usage from other users with similar profiles. This can be accomplished in terms of narrowing and focusing the search results and browsing options through the use of a recommendation system which organizes such results in the most appropriatemanner, using ontologies and concepts drawn from the semantic web field. The complete integration of the experience of use of a digital library in the learning process is also pursued. Both the usage and information organization can be also exploited to extract useful knowledge from the way users interact with a digital library, knowledge that can be used to improve several design aspects of the library, ranging from internal organization aspects to human factors and user interfaces. Although this project is still on an early development stage, it is possible to identify all the desired functionalities and requirements that are necessary to fully integrate the use of a digital library in an e-learning environment.

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Suositusmenetelmien tarkoituksena on auttaa käyttäjää löytämään häntä kiinnostavia asioita ja välttämään asioita, joista hän ei pitäisi. Suositusmenetelmät antavat suosituk- set yleensä terävinä lukuina. Tässä työssä kehitetään suositusmenetelmä, joka antaa suo- situkset arvosanojen sumeina jäsenyysasteina. Menetelmän antamat suositukset voidaan myös perustella käyttäjälle. Menetelmä kuuluu pääosin yhteisösuodatusmenetelmiin, jois- sa suositukset tehdään käyttäjien antamien arvosanojen perusteella, mutta myös tietoa elokuvien tyylilajeista hyödynnetään suositustarkkuuden parantamiseksi. Sumeiden suo- situsten suositeltavuusjärjestyksen laskemiseen esitetään myös menetelmä. Käyttäjien elokuville antamat arvosanat voidaan käsittää sumeana datana. Käyttäjä voi kuvata arvosanaa esimerkiksi ilmaisulla ”noin 4”. Tästä syystä on loogista esittää suo- situksetkin sumeina lukuina. Tällöin käyttäjälle voidaan antaa tietoa suosituksen tark- kuudesta ja mahdollisista ristiriidoista. Epävarmojen suositusten tapauksessa käyttäjä voi painottaa enemmän muita tietolähteitä. Kokeiden perusteella kehitetty menetelmä antaa joissa tapauksissa selvästi vertailtavia menetelmiä parempia suosituksia, kun taas toisissa tapauksissa suositukset ovat selvästi heikompia.

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Les étudiants gradués et les professeurs (les chercheurs, en général), accèdent, passent en revue et utilisent régulièrement un grand nombre d’articles, cependant aucun des outils et solutions existants ne fournit la vaste gamme de fonctionnalités exigées pour gérer correctement ces ressources. En effet, les systèmes de gestion de bibliographie gèrent les références et les citations, mais ne parviennent pas à aider les chercheurs à manipuler et à localiser des ressources. D'autre part, les systèmes de recommandation d’articles de recherche et les moteurs de recherche spécialisés aident les chercheurs à localiser de nouvelles ressources, mais là encore échouent dans l’aide à les gérer. Finalement, les systèmes de gestion de contenu d'entreprise offrent les fonctionnalités de gestion de documents et des connaissances, mais ne sont pas conçus pour les articles de recherche. Dans ce mémoire, nous présentons une nouvelle classe de systèmes de gestion : système de gestion et de recommandation d’articles de recherche. Papyres (Naak, Hage, & Aïmeur, 2008, 2009) est un prototype qui l’illustre. Il combine des fonctionnalités de bibliographie avec des techniques de recommandation d’articles et des outils de gestion de contenu, afin de fournir un ensemble de fonctionnalités pour localiser les articles de recherche, manipuler et maintenir les bibliographies. De plus, il permet de gérer et partager les connaissances relatives à la littérature. La technique de recommandation utilisée dans Papyres est originale. Sa particularité réside dans l'aspect multicritère introduit dans le processus de filtrage collaboratif, permettant ainsi aux chercheurs d'indiquer leur intérêt pour des parties spécifiques des articles. De plus, nous proposons de tester et de comparer plusieurs approches afin de déterminer le voisinage dans le processus de Filtrage Collaboratif Multicritère, de telle sorte à accroître la précision de la recommandation. Enfin, nous ferons un rapport global sur la mise en œuvre et la validation de Papyres.

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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

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[ES] La contaminación difusa por nitrato constituye una de las mayores amenazas actuales para la calidad de las aguas subterráneas. De hecho, varias directivas europeas, nacionales y regionales se han legislado con el fin de minimizar el efecto de las prácticas agrarias en la contaminación de los acuíferos por nitratos. El acuífero de La Aldea (Gran Canaria, España) se ha declarado como vulnerable a la contaminación por nitrato según dichas normas. En este estudio se presenta una metodología para desarrollar el acople de un sistema de información geográfica-SIG con el modelo de simulación de nitrato GLEAMS. Esta herramienta permite calcular la cantidad de nitrato lixiviado procedente de los cultivos de tomate bajo invernadero y da la oportunidad de simular otros rangos de fertilización para minimizar el riesgo de contaminación de las aguas subterráneas. Se comprueba que la pérdida de nitrato por lixiviación en la zona a partir de dichos cultivos podía llegar a los 500 kg N/ha, casi un 62% del aportado como fertilizante mineral en un manejo tradicional. Por ello, se aconseja la aplicación de las recomendaciones de abonado incluidas en el código de buenas prácticas agrarias de Canarias o cualquier otro sistema de recomendación de abonado mineral para reducir estas pérdidas, minimizando de esta forma el riesgo de contaminación de las aguas subterráneas. ABSTRACT: Nitrate diffuse pollution is one of the main risks that affect the groundwater quality. Several european directives, national and regional guidelines have been enacted to protect the aquifers against the effect of the agricultural management practices. The “La Aldea” aquifer was declared nitrate vulnerable area following these laws. In this study a methodology was developed to link a Geographical Information System (GIS) with a nitrogen simulation model (GLEAMS) in this area. This tool allows to assess the amount of nitrate leaching that coming from the traditional nitrogen fertilization rates in greenhouses tomato crops, and gives the opportunity to simulate other fertilization rates to reduce the risk of groundwater pollution. The nitrate leaching reached to 500 kg N/ha in several zones of the study area, that represent the 62% of the nitrogen fertiliser apply in a traditional management. It was recommended the application of the Code of Good Management Practices or other recommendation system to decrease the nitrate leaching, in order to reduce the risk of groundwater pollution.

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This doctoral thesis focuses on the modeling of multimedia systems to create personalized recommendation services based on the analysis of users’ audiovisual consumption. Research is focused on the characterization of both users’ audiovisual consumption and content, specifically images and video. This double characterization converges into a hybrid recommendation algorithm, adapted to different application scenarios covering different specificities and constraints. Hybrid recommendation systems use both content and user information as input data, applying the knowledge from the analysis of these data as the initial step to feed the algorithms in order to generate personalized recommendations. Regarding the user information, this doctoral thesis focuses on the analysis of audiovisual consumption to infer implicitly acquired preferences. The inference process is based on a new probabilistic model proposed in the text. This model takes into account qualitative and quantitative consumption factors on the one hand, and external factors such as zapping factor or company factor on the other. As for content information, this research focuses on the modeling of descriptors and aesthetic characteristics, which influence the user and are thus useful for the recommendation system. Similarly, the automatic extraction of these descriptors from the audiovisual piece without excessive computational cost has been considered a priority, in order to ensure applicability to different real scenarios. Finally, a new content-based recommendation algorithm has been created from the previously acquired information, i.e. user preferences and content descriptors. This algorithm has been hybridized with a collaborative filtering algorithm obtained from the current state of the art, so as to compare the efficiency of this hybrid recommender with the individual techniques of recommendation (different hybridization techniques of the state of the art have been studied for suitability). The content-based recommendation focuses on the influence of the aesthetic characteristics on the users. The heterogeneity of the possible users of these kinds of systems calls for the use of different criteria and attributes to create effective recommendations. Therefore, the proposed algorithm is adaptable to different perceptions producing a dynamic representation of preferences to obtain personalized recommendations for each user of the system. The hypotheses of this doctoral thesis have been validated by conducting a set of tests with real users, or by querying a database containing user preferences - available to the scientific community. This thesis is structured based on the different research and validation methodologies of the techniques involved. In the three central chapters the state of the art is studied and the developed algorithms and models are validated via self-designed tests. It should be noted that some of these tests are incremental and confirm the validation of previously discussed techniques. Resumen Esta tesis doctoral se centra en el modelado de sistemas multimedia para la creación de servicios personalizados de recomendación a partir del análisis de la actividad de consumo audiovisual de los usuarios. La investigación se focaliza en la caracterización tanto del consumo audiovisual del usuario como de la naturaleza de los contenidos, concretamente imágenes y vídeos. Esta doble caracterización de usuarios y contenidos confluye en un algoritmo de recomendación híbrido que se adapta a distintos escenarios de aplicación, cada uno de ellos con distintas peculiaridades y restricciones. Todo sistema de recomendación híbrido toma como datos de partida tanto información del usuario como del contenido, y utiliza este conocimiento como entrada para algoritmos que permiten generar recomendaciones personalizadas. Por la parte de la información del usuario, la tesis se centra en el análisis del consumo audiovisual para inferir preferencias que, por lo tanto, se adquieren de manera implícita. Para ello, se ha propuesto un nuevo modelo probabilístico que tiene en cuenta factores de consumo tanto cuantitativos como cualitativos, así como otros factores de contorno, como el factor de zapping o el factor de compañía, que condicionan la incertidumbre de la inferencia. En cuanto a la información del contenido, la investigación se ha centrado en la definición de descriptores de carácter estético y morfológico que resultan influyentes en el usuario y que, por lo tanto, son útiles para la recomendación. Del mismo modo, se ha considerado una prioridad que estos descriptores se puedan extraer automáticamente de un contenido sin exigir grandes requisitos computacionales y, de tal forma que se garantice la posibilidad de aplicación a escenarios reales de diverso tipo. Por último, explotando la información de preferencias del usuario y de descripción de los contenidos ya obtenida, se ha creado un nuevo algoritmo de recomendación basado en contenido. Este algoritmo se cruza con un algoritmo de filtrado colaborativo de referencia en el estado del arte, de tal manera que se compara la eficiencia de este recomendador híbrido (donde se ha investigado la idoneidad de las diferentes técnicas de hibridación del estado del arte) con cada una de las técnicas individuales de recomendación. El algoritmo de recomendación basado en contenido que se ha creado se centra en las posibilidades de la influencia de factores estéticos en los usuarios, teniendo en cuenta que la heterogeneidad del conjunto de usuarios provoca que los criterios y atributos que condicionan las preferencias de cada individuo sean diferentes. Por lo tanto, el algoritmo se adapta a las diferentes percepciones y articula una metodología dinámica de representación de las preferencias que permite obtener recomendaciones personalizadas, únicas para cada usuario del sistema. Todas las hipótesis de la tesis han sido debidamente validadas mediante la realización de pruebas con usuarios reales o con bases de datos de preferencias de usuarios que están a disposición de la comunidad científica. La diferente metodología de investigación y validación de cada una de las técnicas abordadas condiciona la estructura de la tesis, de tal manera que los tres capítulos centrales se estructuran sobre su propio estudio del estado del arte y los algoritmos y modelos desarrollados se validan mediante pruebas autónomas, sin impedir que, en algún caso, las pruebas sean incrementales y ratifiquen la validación de técnicas expuestas anteriormente.

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La Gestión de Recursos Humanos a través de Internet es un problema latente y presente actualmente en cualquier sitio web dedicado a la búsqueda de empleo. Este problema también está presente en AFRICA BUILD Portal. AFRICA BUILD Portal es una emergente red socio-profesional nacida con el ánimo de crear comunidades virtuales que fomenten la educación e investigación en el área de la salud en países africanos. Uno de los métodos para fomentar la educación e investigación es mediante la movilidad de estudiantes e investigadores entre instituciones, apareciendo así, el citado problema de la gestión de recursos humanos. Por tanto, este trabajo se centra en solventar el problema de la gestión de recursos humanos en el entorno específico de AFRICA BUILD Portal. Para solventar este problema, el objetivo es desarrollar un sistema de recomendación que ayude en la gestión de recursos humanos en lo que concierne a la selección de las mejores ofertas y demandas de movilidad. Caracterizando al sistema de recomendación como un sistema semántico el cual ofrecerá las recomendaciones basándose en las reglas y restricciones impuestas por el dominio. La aproximación propuesta se basa en seguir el enfoque de los sistemas de Matchmaking semánticos. Siguiendo este enfoque, por un lado, se ha empleado un razonador de lógica descriptiva que ofrece inferencias útiles en el cálculo de las recomendaciones y por otro lado, herramientas de procesamiento de lenguaje natural para dar soporte al proceso de recomendación. Finalmente para la integración del sistema de recomendación con AFRICA BUILD Portal se han empleado diversas tecnologías web. Los resultados del sistema basados en la comparación de recomendaciones creadas por el sistema y por usuarios reales han mostrado un funcionamiento y rendimiento aceptable. Empleando medidas de evaluación de sistemas de recuperación de información se ha obtenido una precisión media del sistema de un 52%, cifra satisfactoria tratándose de un sistema semántico. Pudiendo concluir que con la solución implementada se ha construido un sistema estable y modular posibilitando: por un lado, una fácil evolución que debería ir encaminada a lograr un rendimiento mayor, incrementando su precisión y por otro lado, dejando abiertas nuevas vías de crecimiento orientadas a la explotación del potencial de AFRICA BUILD Portal mediante la Web 3.0. ---ABSTRACT---The Human Resource Management through Internet is currently a latent problem shown in any employment website. This problem has also appeared in AFRICA BUILD Portal. AFRICA BUILD Portal is an emerging socio-professional network with the objective of creating virtual communities to foster the capacity for health research and education in African countries. One way to foster this capacity of research and education is through the mobility of students and researches between institutions, thus appearing the Human Resource Management problem. Therefore, this dissertation focuses on solving the Human Resource Management problem in the specific environment of AFRICA BUILD Portal. To solve this problem, the objective is to develop a recommender system which assists the management of Human Resources with respect to the selection of the best mobility supplies and demands. The recommender system is a semantic system which will provide the recommendations according to the domain rules and restrictions. The proposed approach is based on semantic matchmaking solutions. So, this approach on the one hand uses a Description Logics reasoning engine which provides useful inferences to the recommendation process and on the other hand uses Natural Language Processing techniques to support the recommendation process. Finally, Web technologies are used in order to integrate the recommendation system into AFRICA BUILD Portal. The results of evaluating the system are based on the comparison between recommendations created by the system and by real users. These results have shown an acceptable behavior and performance. The average precision of the system has been obtained by evaluation measures for information retrieval systems, so the average precision of the system is at 52% which may be considered as a satisfactory result taking into account that the system is a semantic system. To conclude, it could be stated that the implemented system is stable and modular. This fact on the one hand allows an easy evolution that should aim to achieve a higher performance by increasing its average precision and on the other hand keeps open new ways to increase the functionality of the system oriented to exploit the potential of AFRICA BUILD Portal through Web 3.0.

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La presente tesis doctoral tiene como objetivo el diseñar un modelo de inferencia visual y sencillo que permita a los usuarios no registrados en un sistema de recomendación inferir por ellos mismos las recomendaciones a partir de sus gustos. Este modelo estará basado en la representación de las relaciones de similaridad entre los ítems. Estas representaciones visuales (que llamaremos mapas gráficos), nos muestran en que lugar se encuentran los ítems más representativos y que ítems son votados de una manera más parecida en función de los votos emitidos por los usuarios del sistema de recomendación. Los mapas gráficos obtenidos, toman la forma de los árboles filogenéticos (que son árboles que muestran las relaciones evolutivas entre varias especies), que muestran la similitud numérica entre cada par de ítems que se consideran similares. Como caso de estudio se muestran en este trabajo los resultados obtenidos utilizando la base de datos de MovieLens 1M, que contiene 3900 películas (ítems). ABSTRACT The present PhD thesis has the objective of designing a visual and simple inference model that allow users, who are not registered in a recommendation system, to infer by themselves the recommendations from their tastes. This model will be based on the representation of relations of similarity between items. These visual representations (called graphical maps) show us where the most representative items are, and items are voted in a similar way based on the votes cast by users of the recommendation system. The obtained graphs maps take form of phylogenetic trees (which are trees that show the evolutionary relationships among various species), that give you an idea about the numeric similarity between each pair of items that are considered similar. As a case study we provide the results obtained using the public database Movielens 1M, which contains 3900 movies.

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Recommender systems are now widely used in e-commerce applications to assist customers to find relevant products from the many that are frequently available. Collaborative filtering (CF) is a key component of many of these systems, in which recommendations are made to users based on the opinions of similar users in a system. This paper presents a model-based approach to CF by using supervised ARTMAP neural networks (NN). This approach deploys formation of reference vectors, which makes a CF recommendation system able to classify user profile patterns into classes of similar profiles. Empirical results reported show that the proposed approach performs better than similar CF systems based on unsupervised ART2 NN or neighbourhood-based algorithm.

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Nowadays, Recommender systems play a key role in managing information overload, particularly in areas such as e-commerce, music and cinema. However, despite their good-natured goal, in recent years there has been a growing awareness of their involvement in creating unwanted effects on society, such as creating biases of popularity or filter bubble. This thesis is an attempt to investigate the role of RS and its stakeholders in creating such effects. A simulation study will be performed using EcoAgent, an RL-based multi-stakeholder recommendation system, in a simulation environment that captures key user interactions, suppliers and the recommender system in order to identify possible unhealthy scenarios for stakeholders. In particular, we focus on analyzing the document catalog to see how the diversity of topics that users have access to varies during interactions. Finally, some post-processing methods will be defined on EcoAgent, one reactive and one proactive, which allows us to manipulate the agent’s behavior in order to study whether and how the topic distribution of documents is affected by content providers and by the fairness of the system.

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Many current e-commerce systems provide personalization when their content is shown to users. In this sense, recommender systems make personalized suggestions and provide information of items available in the system. Nowadays, there is a vast amount of methods, including data mining techniques that can be employed for personalization in recommender systems. However, these methods are still quite vulnerable to some limitations and shortcomings related to recommender environment. In order to deal with some of them, in this work we implement a recommendation methodology in a recommender system for tourism, where classification based on association is applied. Classification based on association methods, also named associative classification methods, consist of an alternative data mining technique, which combines concepts from classification and association in order to allow association rules to be employed in a prediction context. The proposed methodology was evaluated in some case studies, where we could verify that it is able to shorten limitations presented in recommender systems and to enhance recommendation quality.

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The aim of this paper is presenting the modules of the Adaptive Educational Hypermedia System PCMAT, responsible for the recommendation of learning objects. PCMAT is an online collaborative learning platform with a constructivist approach, which assesses the user’s knowledge and presents contents and activities adapted to the characteristics and learning style of students of mathematics in basic schools. The recommendation module and search and retrieval module choose the most adequate learning object, based on the user's characteristics and performance, and in this way contribute to the system’s adaptability.

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The Diagnosis and Recommendation Integrated System (DRIS) can improve interpretations of leaf analysis to determine the nutrient status. Diagnoses by this method require DRIS norms, which are however not known for oil content of soybean seeds. The aims of this study were to establish and test the DRIS method for oil content of soybean seed (maturity group II cultivars). Soybean leaves (207 samples) in the full flowering stage were analyzed for macro and micro-nutrients, and the DRIS was applied to assess the relationship between nutrient ratios and the seed oil content. Samples from experimental and farm field sites of the southernmost Brazilian state Rio Grande do Sul (28° - 29° southern latitude; 52° -53° western longitude) were assessed in two growing seasons (2007/2008 and 2008/2009). The DRIS norms related to seed oil content differed between the studied years. A unique DRIS norm was established for seed oil content higher than 18.68 % based on data of the 2007/2008 growing season. Higher DRIS indices of B, Ca, Mg and S were associated with a higher oil content, while the opposite was found for K, N and P. The DRIS can be used to evaluate the leaf nutrient status of soybean to improve the seed oil content of the crop.