Recommendation Systems in the Context of Scheduling Household Appliances
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Abstract
| The talk gives an introduction to the field of recommender systems and explores opportunities for applying recommendation technology in energy related fields such as scheduling of household appliances or mixed-initiative agent-based simulation scenarios of energy markets like Power TAC. |
| The talk will focus particularly on topics that are underrepresented in current recommender systems research, but very relevant for the interaction with users, such as conversational interaction strategies, knowledge-based recommendation or explanations in recommender systems. |
| Markus Zanker is an Associate Professor in the Department for Applied Informatics and the director of the study program Information Management at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria. He is also cofounder and director of ConfigWorks GmbH, a provider of interactive selling technology. His research interests focus on knowledge-based systems, particularly in the fields of interactive sales applications, such as product configuration and recommendation. He also works on knowledge acquisition and user modeling for personalization. He is an associate editor of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies and he was co-chairing the program committee of the 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems in 2010. He is a co-author of the first introductory book on Recommender Systems that is published by Cambridge University Press. |
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| Wolf Ketter |
