Université de Fribourg

Website-oriented recommendation based on heat spreading and tag-aware collaborative filtering

Zhang, Zi-Ke ; Yu, Lu ; Fang, Kuan ; You, Zhi-Qiang ; Liu, Chuang ; Liu, Hao ; Yan, Xiao-Yong

In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2014, vol. 399, p. 82–88

Recently, Recommender Systems has been widely applied in helping users find potentially interesting items from the era of big data. However, most of researches on this topic have focused on estimating the direct relationships between users and items, neglecting other available information. In this paper, we discuss about mining webs with information extracted from search and browser logs of...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Of change and software

Robbes, Romain ; Lanza, Michele (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2008 ; 2008INFO004.

Software changes. Any long-lived software system has maintenance costs dominating its initial development costs as it is adapted to new or changing requirements. Systems on which such continuous changes are performed inevitably decay, making each maintenance task harder. This problem is not new: The software evolution research community has been tackling it for more than two decades. However,...