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Information providers are a very promising application area of recommender systems due to the general problem of assessing the quality of information products prior to the purchase. Recommender systems automatically generate product recommendations: customers profit from a faster finding of relevant products, stores profit from rising sales. All aspects of recommender systems are covered: the economic background, mechanism design, a survey of systems in the Internet, statistical methods and algorithms, service oriented architectures, user interfaces, as well as experiences and data from...

This solid anthology makes a fine start at the effort in its title, DEGREESIReclaiming the American Library Past: Writing the Women In DEGREESR. Like most good beginnings, it succeeds first by clarifying the status of the field and then by raising questions for subsequent scholars to ponder and pursue. - DEGREESIHistory of Education Quarterly DEGREESRThe essays in this book contribute along several dimensions to the new scholarship on a profession and public service of vital importance for well over a century to American literacy, culture and invention. Their authors add to the individual...

Der Band enthalt Beitrage aus den aktuellen Konferenzen der IFLA Newspapers Section (Santiago de Chile, May 2007 and Durban, August 2007). Auf der Santiago International Newspaper Conference, der ersten Zusammenkunft dieser Art, ging es darum, die Bestande der Zeitungssammlungen in Lateinamerika in Augenschein zu nehmen sowie derzeit laufende Prozesse, von grundlegenden Tatigkeiten in diesem Bereich bis hin zu differenzierten Digitalisierungsvorgangen und der Anwendung von Software-Technologien, zu analysieren. Ein Groteil der Beitrage ist auf Spanisch und Englisch...

Hundreds of new horror titles are described and organized according to reading preferences in this new volume of Fonseca and Pulliam's award-winning readers' advisory guide. Focusing on titles published in the last decade, along with a few older classics, the authors cover more than a dozen popular subgenres of horror fiction, including vampires and werewolves, techno-horror, ghosts and haunted houses, and small town horror. Lively annotations and commentary help you find the right book for your most demanding horror fans. More than 500 annotations are new to this edition.

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This comprehensive bibliography provides complete bibliographic and ordering information for over 300 international English-language serials and journals. The titles are arranged alphabetically. Each entry includes extensive bibliographic information and descriptive annotations. In addition, a classified list of titles enables the user to find titles of particular interest to specific fields. A geographical index and index of publishers are also included.

Because of its eclectic nature, criminal justice can be a difficult discipline to research. This readable guide should help students through the maze of data. "Choice"

Lutzker and Ferrall skillfully introduce the student, professor, or researcher to the sources in the field and suggest logical ways of approaching them when doing research. "Reference Books Journal"