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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 4Recommender Systems
- 1Collaborative Filtering
- 1Dependency Graph
- 1Graduating Attributes
- 1Implicit User Behavior
- 1Location-Based Social Network
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Design of a Course Recommender System as an Application of Collecting Graduating Attributes
DownloadFall 2016
In educational research, the term of Graduating Attributes has been used for the qualities, skills and understandings a university community agrees its students would develop. Having a description of Graduating Attributes is one of the ways through which universities can display the outcomes of...
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Fall 2017
With the proliferation of e-commerce business, the study of online user purchasing behavior plays an important role in improving purchasing experiences of users as well as providing valuable intelligence to sellers. While most previous research efforts focused on explicit user behavior modeling,...
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Spring 2017
A curriculum is a planned sequence of instructions or a view of the student’s experiences in terms of the educator’s or school’s instructional goals. However, the guidance provided by the curriculum is limited and both student and course counsellor struggle with the question of choosing a...
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Fall 2017
Recommender systems are a modern solution for suggesting new items to users. One of their uses is for novel point of interest recommendation, recommending locations to a user which they have not visited. This can be applied to a location-based social network, which contains information about...