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L. Rook
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Collaborative filtering systems heavily depend on user feedback expressed in product ratings to select and rank items to recommend. In this study we explore how users value different collaborative explanation styles following the user-based or item-based paradigm. Furthermore, ...
Collaborative filtering systems heavily depend on user feedback expressed in product ratings to select and rank items to recommend. These summary statistics of rating values carry two important descriptors about the assessed items, namely the total number of ratings and the mean
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The goal of the present study was to investigate how satisfied individuals are with the final outcome of a group decision-making process on a joint travel destination. Using an experimental paradigm (N total = 200, N groups = 55) it was obvious to hypothesize that individuals wou
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Preferences for car sharing services
Effects of instrumental attributes and psychological ownership
Car sharing services gain momentum as a potential alternative to various modes of transportation, including privately owned cars. This trend goes hand in hand with a renewed interest in the sharing economy, which has as essential premise that product ownership is of minor rele ...
Most research on group recommender systems relies on the assumption that individuals have conflicting preferences; in order to generate group recommendations the system should identify a fair way of aggregating these preferences. Both empirical studies and theoretical frameworks
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The Benefit of Imitation for Creativity in Art and Design
The Cases of Gerhard Richter and J Mays
Many artists and designers borrow, cite, or seek inspiration in external source materials in their daily creative practice. The aim of this chapter is to show that imitation of external source material offers creative professionals the opportunity to introduce an element of surpr
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Over the last 20 years, the Chinese corporations have accumulated essential technological competencies such as those in the consumer goods manufacturing and information technologies. Therefore, Chinese multinational enterprises (MNEs) have high global ambitions to expand their re
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Enhancing Inter-firm Alignment in IT Vendor-Client Collaborations
An explanatory study within the Airline Service Industry
There has been a quick shift on the way organizations look at the IT value proposition. If in the past decades it was considered a cost-reduction driver, now CIOs view it as a new source of novelty and innovativeness - key factors to respond to changes in the economic, social, an
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User Acceptance of Autonomous Vehicles
Factors & Implications
Self-driving cars have developed rapidly in recent years, diminishing the technological barriers blocking the introduction of the technology. Besides these technological barriers however, there are other issues, such as user acceptance, that need to be dealt with in order for aut
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In a traditional view, innovation is seen as a silver bullet to bring well-being to society. However, various reports seem to prove that this assumption is no longer valid. Almost always, the adverse impacts of innovation endorse that innovation is no longer a sole province of in
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Tooling as a Service
Agent Based Scenario Development for IT Services Delivery
Information Technology [IT] is increasingly being integrated into the modern society. Novel IT solutions are Cloud based. Cloud solutions from Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS are examples of services which offer the benefits of cloud computing. For IT providers, leveraging novel I
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The Influence of Team-Technology Satisfaction on the Quality of Human Generated Data
A Case Study at Royal Vopak
In the light of the fourth industrial revolution, referred to as Industry 4.0, big data is becoming the key resource of modern companies. In order to safely harvest the potential benefits of the Industry 4.0, a high level of data quality is essential. Yet, modern companies experi
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Human Development Impact of the Implementation of Broadband
A case study of the Indonesian Palapa Ring Project
To understand the full impact of broadband implementation to development, investigations beyond its relationship with economic measures are needed. In this study, we particularly want to assess the impact of broadband to human development. The objective of this study is to build
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