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Learning Personalized Risk Preferences for Recommendation
The rapid growth of e-commerce has made people accustomed to shopping online.
Before making purchases on e-commerce websites, most consumers tend to rely on
rating scores and review information to make purchase decisions. With this
information, they can infer the quality of products to reduce the risk of
purchase. Specifically, items with high rating scores and good reviews tend to
be less risky, while items with low rating scores and bad reviews might be
risky to purchase. On the other hand, the purchase behaviors will also be
influenced by consumers' tolerance of risks, known as the risk attitudes.
Economists have studied risk attitudes for decades. These studies reveal that
people are not always rational enough when making decisions, and their risk
attitudes may vary in different circumstances.
Most existing works over recommendation systems do not consider users' risk
attitudes in modeling, which may lead to inappropriate recommendations to
users. For example, suggesting a risky item to a risk-averse person or a
conservative item to a risk-seeking person may result in the reduction of user
experience. In this paper, we propose a novel risk-aware recommendation
framework that integrates machine learning and behavioral economics to uncover
the risk mechanism behind users' purchasing behaviors. Concretely, we first
develop statistical methods to estimate the risk distribution of each item and
then draw the Nobel-award winning Prospect Theory into our model to learn how
users choose from probabilistic alternatives that involve risks, where the
probabilities of the outcomes are uncertain. Experiments on several e-commerce
datasets demonstrate that our approach can achieve better performance than many
classical recommendation approaches, and further analyses also verify the
advantages of risk-aware recommendation beyond accuracy
The business digitalization process in SMEs from the implementation of e-commerce: An empirical analysis
©. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This document is the Published, version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in [Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research]. To access the final edited and published work see[https://doi.org/10.3390/jtaer18040086]The main objective of this research is to carry out a comprehensive analysis of how
e-commerce affects the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Mexico.
This study will pay special attention to the role of business digitalization and the optimization of
operational processes in this context. Our research involved creating a partial least squares structural
equation model (PLS-SEM) to examine our hypotheses. According to our research, incorporating
e-commerce, digitalizing business processes, and improving operational efficiency significantly
contribute to corporate performance. Our results show direct effects that, together with indirect
effects of business digitalization and operational efficiency, enhance the positive influence of online
commerce. This research fills a gap in the literature by investigating the relationship between ecommerce, business digitalization, operational efficiency, and business performance. It provides
essential insights into the direct impact of e-commerce on corporate performance and the indirect
impact through the mediation of business digitalization and operational efficiency. The results show
significant implications for business managers, as the findings can help them to invest in technologies
that foster e-commerce, which, by improving business digitalization and operational efficiency, will
result in better corporate performance and the ability to adapt to today’s turbulent environmen
The Business Digitalization Process in SMEs from the Implementation of e-Commerce: An Empirical Analysis.
The main objective of this research is to carry out a comprehensive analysis of how e-commerce affects the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Mexico. This study will pay special attention to the role of business digitalization and the optimization of operational processes in this context. Our research involved creating a partial least squares structural equation model (PLS-SEM) to examine our hypotheses. According to our research, incorporating e-commerce, digitalizing business processes, and improving operational efficiency significantly contribute to corporate performance. Our results show direct effects that, together with indirect effects of business digitalization and operational efficiency, enhance the positive influence of online commerce. This research fills a gap in the literature by investigating the relationship between e-commerce, business digitalization, operational efficiency, and business performance. It provides essential insights into the direct impact of e-commerce on corporate performance and the indirect impact through the mediation of business digitalization and operational efficiency. The results show significant implications for business managers, as the findings can help them to invest in technologies that foster e-commerce, which, by improving business digitalization and operational efficiency, will result in better corporate performance and the ability to adapt to today’s turbulent environment
Fundamentos de data science y sus aplicaciones en distintas industrias
Este trabajo de investigación tiene la finalidad de brindar una guía de aprendizaje de los
conocimientos, a nivel general, que un profesional debe adquirir con la finalidad de
desempeñarse como Data Scientist. A través de este trabajo, se inicia enunciando lo que es
Data Science y lo que hace un Data Scientist, y en base a esto discernir cinco categorías de
actividades principales.
Partiendo de estas cinco actividades se desarrollan los siguientes apartados del primer
capítulo, en los que se presentan los conocimientos estadísticos, matemáticos e informáticos
que se deben poseer vinculados a cada una de las actividades. Aunque es de mencionar que los
conocimientos asociados a estas actividades principales son transversales entre sí para una
correcta aplicación del Data Science. También, se debe tener en cuenta que este trabajo solo
pretende brindar una pauta para los conocimientos base necesarios para desempeñarse en el
área de Data Science, esto implica que no se profundiza en temas relacionados a algoritmos de
modelos, de los cuales solo se harán mención por ser relevantes por sus aplicaciones.
En el segundo capítulo se mencionan distintas aplicaciones del Data Science en cuatro
industrias: servicios de salud, transporte, finanzas y e-commerce. En cada una de estos se
muestran distintos casos de aplicación de Data Science entre los que están las predicciones,
análisis de decisiones, detecciones de escenarios, optimizaciones, control de sistemas y
sistemas de recomendaciones. En cada una de estos casos se refieren de forma concisa los
procedimientos seguidos, pasando desde la recolección de los datos hasta el modelo de los
mismos, y mencionando los resultados logrados.
Finalmente, se presentan conclusiones recabadas de lo que implica una formación como
Data Science en la actualidad, así de como su importancia en los campos de aplicación, más
ahora, en tiempos donde hay más información disponible y mejores capacidades de cómputo.Trabajo de investigació
The use of machine learning algorithms in recommender systems: A systematic review
The final publication is available at Elsevier via https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.12.020 © 2018. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Recommender systems use algorithms to provide users with product or service recommendations. Recently, these systems have been using machine learning algorithms from the field of artificial intelligence. However, choosing a suitable machine learning algorithm for a recommender system is difficult because of the number of algorithms described in the literature. Researchers and practitioners developing recommender systems are left with little information about the current approaches in algorithm usage. Moreover, the development of recommender systems using machine learning algorithms often faces problems and raises questions that must be resolved. This paper presents a systematic review of the literature that analyzes the use of machine learning algorithms in recommender systems and identifies new research opportunities. The goals of this study are to (i) identify trends in the use or research of machine learning algorithms in recommender systems; (ii) identify open questions in the use or research of machine learning algorithms; and (iii) assist new researchers to position new research activity in this domain appropriately. The results of this study identify existing classes of recommender systems, characterize adopted machine learning approaches, discuss the use of big data technologies, identify types of machine learning algorithms and their application domains, and analyzes both main and alternative performance metrics.Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Ontario Research Fund of the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation, and Scienc