Given a large amount of documents it is hard to find the documents that you need. These days most -if not allof these documents are available electronically. Information Retrieval (IR) systems help in finding the documents that satisfy the user’s information need. There are many techniques that are used by these IR systems. One of these techniques is learning classification. This technique uses...

Both instructors and students dread large introductory courses. IS introductory courses are no exception as they are often too large, the material too dry and the atmosphere too impersonal. This presentation describes a unique curriculum for delivering introductory IS survey courses that keep students interested and engaged while producing high-quality learning outcomes. In designing this curri...

As more information becomes available electronically, tools for finding information of interest to users becomes increasingly important. The goal of the research described here is to build a system for generating comprehensible user profiles that accurately capture user interest with minimum user interaction. The research described here focuses on the importance of a suitable generalization hie...