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Innovative food recommendation systems: a machine learning approach
This thesis was submitted for the award of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel University LondonRecommendation systems employ users history data records to predict their preference,
and have been widely used in diverse fields including biology, e-commerce, and healthcare.
Traditional recommendation techniques include content-based, collaborative-based and
hybrid methods but not all real-world problems can be best addressed by these classical
recommendation techniques. Food recommendation is one such challenging problem where
there is an urgent need to use novel recommendation systems in assisting people to select
healthy, balanced and personalized food plans. In this thesis, we make several advances in
food recommendation systems using innovative machine learning methods. First, a novel
recommendation approach is proposed by transforming an original recommendation problem
into a many-objective optimisation one that contains several different objectives resulting in
more balanced recommendations. Second, a unified approach to designing sequence-based
personalised food recommendation systems is investigated to accommodate dynamic user
behaviours. Third, a new food recommendation approach is developed with a temporal
dependent graph neural network and data augmentation techniques leading to more accurate
and robust recommendations. The experimental results show that these proposed approaches
have not only provided a more balanced and accurate way of recommending food than the
traditional methods but also led to promising areas for future research
A recommender system for e-retail
The e-retail sector in South Africa has a significant opportunity to capture a large portion of the country's retail industry. Central to seizing this opportunity is leveraging the advantages that the online setting affords. In particular, the e-retailer can offer an extremely large catalogue of products; far beyond what a traditional retailer is capable of supporting. However, as the catalogue grows, it becomes increasingly difficult for a customer to efficiently discover desirable products. As a consequence, it is important for the e-retailer to develop tools that automatically explore the catalogue for the customer. In this dissertation, we develop a recommender system (RS), whose purpose is to provide suggestions for products that are most likely of interest to a particular customer. There are two primary contributions of this dissertation. First, we describe a set of six characteristics that all effective RS's should possess, namely; accuracy, responsiveness, durability, scalability, model management, and extensibility. Second, we develop an RS that is capable of serving recommendations in an actual e-retail environment. The design of the RS is an attempt to embody the characteristics mentioned above. In addition, to show how the RS supports model selection, we present a proof-of-concept experiment comparing two popular methods for generating recommendations that we implement for this dissertation, namely, implicit matrix factorisation (IMF) and Bayesian personalised ranking (BPR)
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Personal Learning Environments for Inquiry-Based Learning
Personal Learning Environments have recently emerged as a novel approach to learning, putting learners in the spotlight and providing them with the tools for building their own learning environments according to their specific learning needs and aspirations. This approach enables learners to take complete control over their learning, thus becoming self-regulated and independent. This paper introduces a new European initiative for supporting and enhancing inquiry-based learning through Personal Learning Environments consisting of personal and social inquiry tools. This approach aims at supporting students in developing their self-regulated learning skills by conducting their scientific inquiries in collaboration with their peers
Proceedings of the 18th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
These proceedings contain the papers that were accepted for publication at AICS-2007, the 18th Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, which was held in the Technological University Dublin; Dublin, Ireland; on the 29th to the 31st August 2007. AICS is the annual conference of the Artificial Intelligence Association of Ireland (AIAI)
Recent Advances in Social Data and Artificial Intelligence 2019
The importance and usefulness of subjects and topics involving social data and artificial intelligence are becoming widely recognized. This book contains invited review, expository, and original research articles dealing with, and presenting state-of-the-art accounts pf, the recent advances in the subjects of social data and artificial intelligence, and potentially their links to Cyberspace
Semantic discovery and reuse of business process patterns
Patterns currently play an important role in modern information systems (IS) development and their use has mainly been restricted to the design and implementation phases of the development lifecycle. Given the increasing significance of business modelling in IS development, patterns have the potential of providing a viable solution for promoting reusability of recurrent generalized models in the very early stages of development. As a statement of research-in-progress this paper focuses on business process patterns and proposes an initial methodological framework for the discovery and reuse of business process patterns within the IS development lifecycle. The framework borrows ideas from the domain engineering literature and proposes the use of semantics to drive both the discovery of patterns as well as their reuse
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