Intelligent Techniques
for Web Personalization
Papers from the AAAI Workshop
Technical Report WS-06-10
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Intelligent Techniques
for Web Personalization
Papers from the AAAI Workshop
Bamshad Mobasher and Sarabjot Singh Anand, Cochairs
Technical Report WS-06-10
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Organizing Committee
Bamshad Mobasher
School of Computer Science, Telecommunication, and Information Systems,
DePaul University, 243 S. Wabash Ave. Chicago, IL, 60604, USA
mobasher@cs.depaul.edu
Sarabjot Singh Anand
Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
S.S.Anand@warwick.ac.uk
Program Committee
Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy
Bettina Berendt, Humbolt University, Germany
Robin Burke, DePaul University, USA
Rayid Ghani, Accenture, USA
Nicola Henze, University of Hannover, Germany
Andreas Hotho, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Joseph Konstan, University of Minnesota, USA
Mark Levene, University College, London, UK
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Stuart E. Middleton, University of Southampton
Dunja Mladenic, Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Maurice Mulvenna, NIKEL, Faculty of Informatics, University of Ulster, Northern Ire land, UK
Alexandros Nanopulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Olfa Nasraoui, University of Memphis, USA
Claire Nedellec, Université Paris Sud, Paris, France
George Paliouras, Demokritos National Centre for Scientific Research, Athens, Greece
David Pennock, Yahoo! Research, USA
Enric Plaza, Institut d'Investigació en Intel.ligència Artificial, Catalonia (Spain)
Naren Ramakrishnan, Virginia Tech, USA
Francesco Ricci, ITC-irst, Italy
Lars Schmidt-Thieme, University of Freiburg, Germany
Spiros Sirmakessis, University of Patras, Greece
Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland
Myra Spiliopoulou, Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany
Alex Tuzhilin, Stern School of Business, New York University, USA
Suk-Chung Yoon, Widener University, USA
Cai Nicholas Ziegler, Siemens AG
This AAAI–06 Workshop was held July 16, 2006,
in Boston, Massachusetts USA
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Contents
Scalable Collaborative Filtering Based on Latent Semantic Indexing / 1
Panagiotis Symeonidis, Alexandros Nanopoulos, Apostolos Papadopoulos, and Yannis Manolopoulos
Cross System Personalization by Factor Analysis / 10
Bhaskar Mehta, Thomas Hofmann, and Peter Fankhauser
The Necessary but Not Sufficient Role of Ontologies in
Applications Requiring Personalized Content Filtering / 19
Santtu Toivonen and Oriana Riva
Improving Reranking of Search Results using Collaborative Filtering / 31
Rohini Uppuluri and Vamshi Ambati
Applying Collaborative Filtering Techniques to the Movie Search
for Better Ranking and Browsing / 38
Seung-Taek Park, David M. Pennock, and Dennis DeCoste
Securing Collaborative Filtering against Malicious Attacks through Anomaly Detection / 50
Runa Bhaumik, Chad Williams, Bamshad Mobasher, and Robin Burke
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