Crossing the Rubicon: A Generic Intelligent Advisor

Crossing the Rubicon: A Generic Intelligent Advisor

Recommender systems (RS) are being used by an increasing number of e-commerce sites to help consumers find the personally best products. We define here the criteria that a RS should satisfy, drawing on concepts from behavioral science, computational intelligence, and data mining. We present our conclusions from building the WiseUncle RS and give its general description. Rather than being an adv...

Crossing the Rubicon.

Crossing the rubicon; or, 'who's in charge?'.

Crossing the Rubicon: Death in ‘The Year of the Transplant’

How death should be measured was a subject of intense debate during the late 1960s, and one in which transplant surgeons had a particular interest. Legislation required a doctor to first pronounce 'extinct' the patients from whom 'spare parts' were sought for grafting. But transplant surgeons increasingly argued the moment of death was less important than was the moment of establishing that a p...

Towards a Generic Data Compression Advisor

Compression allows scalable storage of large amounts of data and alleviates the I/O bottleneck for dataintensive applications. Over the years, a large number of compression algorithms have been developed to support various data types. Our goal is to develop a generic tool that helps quickly and accurately decide what compression scheme(s) best match the constraints and expectations of users wit...