Two hidden traps in forecasting the future

The year 1999 marked the start of the European higher education reform called the Bologna Process. One of its goals is a competency-based system. After graduation, each student has a series of competences in solving specific problems. This approach is … Read More

How real-estate portals can benefit from website personalization

Real-estate portals versus e-commerce websites Website visitors and online customers are more and more expecting personalized content when visiting an online store. Indeed, with personalization the overall customer experience is improved, visitors find relevant items faster and easier and they … Read More

Boost your online business with a recommender system

The e-commerce industry has grown exponentially in the last years including business selling exclusively online and brick-and-mortar shops opening online stores. You have been working hard to stand out from competition and drive traffic to your online store, it is … Read More

The key concepts of the NLP revolution and how the good soldier Svejk would have benefited from them

The term AI revolution has for some time now, reached the general media and this is largely due to two advancements in Artificial intelligence. The first one was marked by the 4-1 victory of Alpha Go in its series of … Read More

The complex task of comparing recommender systems: how the ancient Greeks come to help and what real life lessons I learned while performing the comparison

The digital era changed the way we relate to information. Everything we want is at a few clicks distance and no one can deny that this is a good thing, but like any good thing, having it in excess is … Read More

UPCARS is kicked-off

The next generation of Recommender Systems, will beable to overcome the current RS challenges and to offer contextualized recommendations while limiting the data collected from the user to the minimum:. This is UPCARS genesis: a User Privacy Context Aware Recommender System. … Read More