Most commercial search engines give the same results for the same query, not considering the user's interest. User profiling is a fundamental component of any personalization application. Most existing user profiling strategies are based on object that users are interested in ( positive preferences), but not the objects that users dislike ( negative preferences). This paper focuses on sear...

Most commercial search engines give the same results for the same query, not considering the user's interest. User profiling is a fundamental component of any personalization application. Most existing user profiling strategies are based on object that users are interested in ( positive preferences), but not the objects that users dislike ( negative preferences). This paper focuses on sear...

It is shown that the Pazner-Schmeidler social ordering appears as a very natural solution to the problem of deÞning social preferences over distributions of a Þxed bundle of divisible goods. The paper follows an approach to preference aggregation which relies only on interpersonally non-comparable preferences, and circumvents Arrow’s impossibility by taking account of the shape of indifference ...

Most commercial search engines give the same results for the same query, not considering the user's interest. User profiling is a fundamental component of any personalization application. Most existing user profiling strategies are based on object that users are interested in ( positive preferences), but not the objects that users dislike ( negative preferences). This paper focuses on sear...

Route planners are systems which help users select a route between two locations. In such a context, personalization mechanisms notably aim at taking into account user preferences so as to identify the best route(s) among a set of possible answers. In this paper, we present a framework based on fuzzy set theory for modeling complex user preferences. We provide a typology of preferences which ma...

This article investigates the effect of mimicry on consumer product consumption and appraisal. We propose and test two paths via which mimicry may influence product preferences. In the mimicking consumer path, we suggest that individuals automatically mimic the consumption behaviors of other people and that such mimicry then affects preferences toward the product(s) consumed. In the mimicked co...

the subject of this article is sociological explication of the social factors influencing fertility preferences of women in kerman, iran. the research method is survey and the data collection instrument is a questionnaire. the sample, selected through the cluster sampling method, consisted of 342 married women working in state agencies in kerman, iran. the findings revealed the highest correlat...

in the portfolio selection problem, the manager considers several objectives simultaneously such as the rate of return, the liquidity and the risk of portfolios. these objectives are conflicting and incommensurable. moreover, the objectives can be imprecise. generally, the portfolio manager seeks the best combination of the stocks that meets his investment objectives. the imprecise goal program...

This study was intended first to categorize the L2 learners in terms of their learning style preferences and second to investigate if their learning preferences are related to lexical inferencing. Moreover, strategies used for lexical inferencing and text related issues of text density and parts of speech were studied to determine their moderating effects and the best predictors of lexical infe...