Nowadays, many configurable products and services are sold via web. For supporting a customer in configuring the desired product, the interaction with the configurator has to be personalised according to the user's interests. In this paper, we show how these interests can be estimated. In an idealisation, we ascribe the Multi-Attribute Utility Theory as evaluation process to the user. Based on ...

This paper presents an image retrieval method based on keyblocks combing with interest points, furthermore the generation of codebook is also utilized to enhance the retrieval performance, where the balance between the retrieved precision and time cost can decide the codebook size of this CBIR system. Finally, the proposed method is compared with the method that only depends on interest points ...

In content-based image retrieval (CBIR), the user usually poses several labelled images and then the system attempts to retrieve all the images relevant to the target concept defined by these labelled images. It may be helpful if the system can return relevant images where the regions of interest (ROI) are explicitly located. In this paper, this task is accomplished with the help of multi-insta...

Location-based games entertain players usually by interactions at points of interest (POIs). Navigation between POIs often involve the use of either a physical or digital map, not taking advantage of the opportunity available to engage users in activities between POIs. The paper presents riddle solving as a navigational method for a location-based game. 10 families with 2-6 persons and at least...

With the gradual maturating of ubiquitous computing and the rapid advances in mobile devices and wireless communication, indoor Location Based Services have gained increasing interests as an important application of indoor ubiquitous computing. In this paper, we propose an evaluation framework which combines the key aspects of indoor navigation for investigating mobile indoor navigation systems...

Responsive polymer-based materials (or smart materials) have found numerous uses over the years due to their ease of synthesis and various responsivities/functionalities. Of them, stimuli-responsive hydrogel particles (microgels) have generated a lot of interest, and have been used for a number of applications, most importantly for this submission is their use as components of photonic material...

Point-of-interest (POI) recommendation is an important service to Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) that can benefit both users and businesses. In recent years, a number of POI recommender systems have been proposed, but there is still a lack of systematical comparison thereof. In this paper, we provide an allaround evaluation of 12 state-of-the-art POI recommendation models. From the eval...

Agent-based simulations are expected to enable analysis of complex social phenomena. In such simulations, one of the important behaviors of the agents is negotiation. Throughout the negotiations, the agents can make complex interactions with each other. Therefore, the ability of agents to perform negotiation is important in simulations of artificial societies. In this paper, we focus on price n...

River management is a typical example of a complex problem involving a variety of stakeholder interests and fundamental environmental uncertainties. The Dutch government aims to take the different interests and views explicitly into account by allowing stakeholders to participate in the planning process. The aim of our research is to analyse this participatory process to investigate stakeholder...

The lack of structure of information and interaction in current web-based electronic commerce makes partial or full automation infeasible. We describe the rst steps towards an open agent-based market infrastructure, with well-deened information and interaction models allowing agents to locate relevant market participants, exchange interests, and negotiate deals. We also describe an architecture...