Companies spend too much money on advertising in order to improve their sales. However, the ratio between investment and effective sales is low. Increasing the usefulness of provided ads and discount coupons is an ongoing ...

Nowadays there are many on-line applications in which users’ feedback is used to compute a trust value for products, services and also other users. In those application domains, trust models are required and extensively ...

This study explores how entrepreneurs “do” contexts in peripheral areas. Through the examination of changes in roles, practices, and relationships across peripheral areas in Chile, we found that substantive transformations ...

This document identifies the key aspects of the current international economic situation and their principal implications for the macroeconomic performance of Latin America and the Caribbean. These aspects include preliminary ...

Context-aware Computing is characterized by the development of devices capable of making decisions, offering services and answers based on the user’s current context. It is formed by different types of context, among ...

The current research in Mathematics education recommends to measure how well students are able to apply their knowledge and mathematical skills and use them to solve problems in a real-life context but an increasing body ...

Contextual information extracted from the user task can help to better target retrieval to task-relevant content. In particular, topical context can be exploited to identify the sub- ject of the information needs, contributing ...