There are several applications, such as play lists of songs or movies, and shopping carts, where users are interested in finding top-k packages, consisting of sets of items. In response to this need, there has been a recent flurry of activity around extending classical recommender systems (RS), which are effective at recommending individual items, to recommend packages, or sets of items. The fe...

People can adopt many different energy-saving measures, but how can they be encouraged to take action? Recommender systems could offer a solution, but how recommender systems are used and perceived will depend on the level of knowledge people have regarding energy-saving measures. We test an energysaving recommender system that uses Multi-Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT) to recommend energysavin...

This study considers the role of epistemic turning points in the historiography of sexuality. Disentangling the historical complexity of "scientia sexualis," I argue that the late 19th century and the mid-20th century constitute two critical epistemic junctures in the genealogy of sexual liberation, as the notion of free love slowly gave way to the idea of sexual freedom in modern western socie...

We present the design and analysis of the first fully expressive, iterative combinatorial exchange (ICE). The exchange incorporates a tree-based bidding language (TBBL) that is concise and expressive for CEs. Bidders specify lower and upper bounds in TBBL on their value for different trades and refine these bounds across rounds. These bounds allow price discovery and useful preference elicitati...

Current approaches to privacy policy comparison use strict evaluation criteria (e.g. user preferences) and are unable to state how close a given policy is to fulfil these criteria. More flexible approaches for policy comparison is a prerequisite for a number of more advanced privacy services, e.g. improved privacy-enhanced search engines and automatic learning of privacy preferences. This paper...

Previous research showed that choice-based preference elicitation can be successfully used to reduce effort during user cold start, resulting in an improved user satisfaction with the recommender system. However, it has also been shown to result in highly popular recommendations. In the present study we investigate if trailers reduce this bias to popular recommendations by informing the user an...

Results: Of 729 pediatric patients (746 eyes) who had enucleation from 1960 to 2008, 29 patients (4.0%) and 30 eyes (4.0%) had discordant clinical and pathological diagnoses. The misdiagnosis enucleation rate decreased with each respective decade studied, with the highest rate of 6.5% (18 of 276 eyes) in the 1960s and no misdiagnoses from 1990 to 2008. Of the 369 eyes enucleated for the clinica...

The majority of water and wastewater infrastructures in the industrialized world will require retrofitting and replacement in the near future. Furthermore, there is a growing need for new infrastructure in developing countries. Growing environmental and energy concerns in combination with the challenges involved in securing the quality and quantity of water heighten the urgency of the issue [1-...

Stackelberg security games (SSGs) have been deployed in a number of real-world domains. One key challenge in these applications is the assessment of attacker payoffs, which may not be perfectly known. Previous work has studied SSGs with uncertain payoffs modeled by interval uncertainty and provided maximin-based robust solutions. In contrast, in this work we propose the use of the less conserva...

Six cases are described where the medical management of a person's epilepsy was brought under legal scrutiny. Lessons learnt from this educational exercise include improving doctor patient communication, the function of a Coroner's Court, when is misdiagnosis negligent, the vagaries of expert witnesses, should failure to diagnose a tumour be blamed on the physician or the service when facilitie...