This paper presents an approach for developing content-based recommendation applications with focus on the use of a specific domain fuzzy ontology along with a user preference ontology. The approach falls into two stages: ...

Traditional approaches for mining generalized association rules are based only on database contents, and focus on exact matches among items. However, in many applications, the use of some background knowledge, as ontologies, ...

As availability of data from several areas of knowledge grows, it is even more necessary to develop effective techniques to retrieve the desired information, aiming to reduce irrelevant answers and ensure that relevant ...

The mining association rules are an important task in data mining. Traditional algorithms of mining association rules are based only on the database items, providing a very specific knowledge. This specificity may not be ...

Web sites in different areas are accessed by users with the many purposes. Several strategies have been developed and employed to improve and facilitate website access and navigation. Among these strategies there are those ...