Nowadays, traffic management policy in metropolitans is focused on increasing the share of public transit. The limitation of supply and slowing growth of road infrastructures have provided congestion for users who choose personal cars. Therefore, applying demand management policies which decrease the utility of personal cars and increase the tendency to public transit can be very important. Con...

One exciting promise of ubiquitous computing is that increased fidelity in natural world sensing will enable computers to better serve people via responsive or anticipatory behavior. We believe better behavioral modeling of users can play an important role in helping to make this possible. We propose the technique of planaware behavioral modeling to reason about deviations between a user’s inte...

Smart Environments (SmE) are richly integrated with multiple heterogeneous devices; they perform the operations in intelligent manner by considering the context and actions/behaviors of the users. Their major objective is to enable the environment to provide ease and comfort to the users. The reliance on these systems demands consistent behavior. The versatility of devices, user behavior and in...

pupose: this research aims to investigate how users expand their queries when encountered with irrelevant retrievals and through examine the degree of match between users' expanded subject queries and the list of persian subject headings. furthermore, it compares the patterns of query expansion in two subject areas: 1) agriculture (applied sciences); 2) education and psychology (humanities). me...

We explore whether watching the behavior of an avatar created by a user can affect that users in the actual world. This research aims to determine if we can achieve results similar to those obtained from an experi-Modeling: The Effects of Vicarious Reinforcement and Identification on Exercise Behaviors (Fox and Bailenson, 2009), but using avatars created by observers rather than experimenter-pr...

background: academic optimism about teachers is a new construct. the objective of this study was investigation of primary school teachers' academic optimism and organizational citizenship behavior in shiraz city. methods: the method of this study was descriptive and correlational study. the population of this study were all teachers (men and women) working in the 1391-1392 school year in public...

This paper focuses on modeling users’ cognitive styles based on a set of Web usage mining techniques on user navigation patterns and clickstream data. Main aim is to investigate whether specific clustering techniques can group users of particular cognitive style using measures obtained from psychometric tests and content navigation behavior. Three navigation metrics are proposed and utilized to...

In order to develop a more efficient and accurate marketing strategy for consumers’ purchase behavior, this paper establishes user value model by modeling learning the historical data of e-commerce enterprises. The improved K-means algorithm is used cluster behavior users, customer matrix constructed from two dimensions consumption frequency average amount. Finally, users are classified into fo...

Virtual Environment (VE) user interfaces do not generally support personalized interaction or the ability to adapt to the user. Our research is developing nuanceoriented interfaces – interfaces that take advantage of subtle clues that users give in their actions. To that end, we have performed five experiments with the goal of recognizing and applying nuances for the task of selection. We found...