Collaborative and Social Information Retrieval and Access: Techniques for Improved User Modeling

Professionals are continually presented with numerous information sources creating the need to determine their relevance within the huge amount of available information.

Collaborative and Social Information Retrieval and Access: Techniques for Improved User Modeling presents current state-of-the-art developments including case studies, challenges, and trends. Covering topics such as recommender systems, user profiles, and collaborative filtering, this book informs and educates academicians, researchers, and field practitioners on the latest advancements in information retrieval.

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

• Actor Network Theory
• Adaptive information retrieval
• Adaptive user profiles
• Adaptive Web site
• Collaborative Filtering
• Communal tag relationships
• Context-aware user query formulation
• E-learning recommender systems
• Personalized information retrieval
• Semantic-based learning environment
• User competencies modeling
• User modeling in CSIRA