In this paper, we propose a ubiquitous product rating system. First we provide an overview of state-of-the-art product recommendation, concluding that current approaches do not support in-store consumers; i.e. consumers on the shop floor. Within shops however is where three out of four buying decisions are made. Hence we propose APriori, a new approach towards mobile product recommendation. APr...

In pursuit of automated text understanding, two broad types of approach can be distinguished: analytic methods (e.g. named entity extraction) that provide specific items of information, and synthetic methods (e.g. topic identification) that provide a global characterization. Recent interest in identifying overall affect or sentiment in text falls into the second category. Judging from the limit...

this research compared ratings of task performance and contextual performance from three different sources: self, peer, and supervisor. participants were service industry employees in the service industries in yogyakarta, indonesia. a sample of 146 employees and 40 supervisors   from the service industries provided ratings of task performance and contextual performance. the results indicated th...

The most exchange volume in a country will be obtained through bank system whose correct function will have a determinant role in improving economic activities. Nowadays, the customer’s rating and accreditation subject has been considered more than before by the banks due to increase the volume of overdue claims and banks’ past over dues. One of the most important tools for controlling the bank...

The TrueSkill Bayesian rating system, developed a few years ago in Microsoft Research, provides an accurate probabilistic model for estimating relative skills of participants in the most general situation of participants re-organizing into different teams for each game. However, in cases when data on each participant is scarce, the teams may be of different size and their strength does not grow...

The rise of social media sites, such as blogs, wikis, Digg and Flickr among others, underscores a transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are actively creating, evaluating and distributing information. The social news aggregator Digg allows users to submit links to and vote on news stories. Like other social media sites, Digg also allows users to designate others as “...

We present here the web-interface we designed and implemented to make it easier to access our data on P2P activity. In particular, this interface makes it browsable by browsing from files to related users, and conversely. Moreover, we include in this interface richer information which we precompute, like lists of files of interest for a given user, list of users providing a given file, list of ...

The market for outsourcing of IT services constantly grows with one of the major outsourced services being software development, often to emerging economies. Even though the benefits of outsourced software development can be an important incentive there still exist great risks especially for smaller businesses that generally do not obtain the necessary experiences to manage or even find an adeq...

The rating system I entered into the Deloitte/FIDE Chess Rating Challenge, the “Glicko-boost” system, is a substantial extension of the Glicko system. The Glicko system (Glickman, 1999) is a rating system I invented in the mid-1990s in which each player is characterized at any time by two parameters: a rating, and a “ratings deviation” (RD). The RD, the main innovation of the Glicko system, is ...