Jacques Bou Abdo

Multi-utility framework: blockchain exchange platform for sustainable development

2020 · International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to design a sustainable development platform for water and energy peer-to-peer trading that is financially and economically feasible. Water and other resources are becoming scarcer every day, and …

Critique on Natural Noise in Recommender Systems

2021 · ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data

Recommender systems have been upgraded, tested, and applied in many, often incomparable ways. In attempts to diligently understand user behavior in certain environments, those systems have been frequently utilized in domains like e-commerce, e-learning, and …

Cultivating Inclusivity: A Journey Towards Democratizing Cybersecurity Education

2023

In today’s increasingly digital landscape, organizations and institutions are tasked with carrying out an array of risk-based activities, such as threat modeling, risk assessment, and microdata publishing. At the heart of these efforts lies the …

The Cost of Interpretability: Auditable User Representations via Archetypes

2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Collaborative filtering embeddings underpin personalization across web platforms but are opaque: a user's dense vector cannot explain their behavioral profile to a regulator or the user themselves, and retraining produces arbitrarily rotated coordinates that defeat …

Similarity measures for collaborative filtering recommender systems

2018

Collaborative filtering recommender systems evaluate users' ratings in order to give them better recommendations. One of the popular ways to make rating predictions is by using neighborhood-based models which rely on calculating the similarities between …