2022
Autores
Teixeira, SF; Barbosa, B; Cunha, H; Oliveira, Z;
Publicação
SUSTAINABILITY
Abstract
Worldwide organic food consumption has registered a consistent rise in recent years. Despite the relevant body of literature on the topic, it is necessary to further understand the antecedents of purchase intention. This article aims to identify the factors that influence the consumer's intention to purchase organic food. It extends the theory of planned behavior model by including environmental concerns, health concerns, and perceived quality as determinants of attitude toward organic food products. Additionally, it considers the effect of product availability on consumers' perceived behavioral control. This article includes a quantitative study that was conducted in Portugal in 2020 (n = 206). Structural equation modeling was used to test the proposed set of research hypotheses. In line with extant literature, this study confirmed that attitude toward organic food is the main determinant of purchase intention. Additionally, it demonstrates that health concerns and perceived quality have a significant impact on attitude toward organic food. The impact of environmental concerns on attitude was not confirmed by this study. Based on these findings, it is recommended that managers stress health benefits and quality of organic food in order to foster positive attitudes and consequently leverage purchase intention.
2022
Autores
Ruas, R; Barbosa, B;
Publicação
ICT as Innovator Between Tourism and Culture - Advances in Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage
Abstract
2022
Autores
Barbosa, B; Santos, CA; Katti, C; Filipe, S;
Publicação
Handbook of Research on Smart Management for Digital Transformation - Advances in E-Business Research
Abstract
2022
Autores
Carvalho, CL; Barbosa, B; Santos, CA;
Publicação
Advances in Human Services and Public Health - Handbook of Research on Digital Citizenship and Management During Crises
Abstract
2021
Autores
Vinagre, J; Jorge, AM; Rocha, C; Gama, J;
Publicação
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING
Abstract
Online incremental models for recommendation are nowadays pervasive in both the industry and the academia. However, there is not yet a standard evaluation methodology for the algorithms that maintain such models. Moreover, online evaluation methodologies available in the literature generally fall short on the statistical validation of results, since this validation is not trivially applicable to stream-based algorithms. We propose a k-fold validation framework for the pairwise comparison of recommendation algorithms that learn from user feedback streams, using prequential evaluation. Our proposal enables continuous statistical testing on adaptive-size sliding windows over the outcome of the prequential process, allowing practitioners and researchers to make decisions in real time based on solid statistical evidence. We present a set of experiments to gain insights on the sensitivity and robustness of two statistical tests-McNemar's and Wilcoxon signed rank-in a streaming data environment. Our results show that besides allowing a real-time, fine-grained online assessment, the online versions of the statistical tests are at least as robust as the batch versions, and definitely more robust than a simple prequential single-fold approach.
2021
Autores
Gatzioura, A; Vinagre, J; Jorge, AM; Sanchez Marre, M;
Publicação
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING
Abstract
Although widely used, the majority of current music recommender systems still focus on recommendations' accuracy, user preferences and isolated item characteristics, without evaluating other important factors, like the joint item selections and the recommendation moment. However, when it comes to playlist recommendations, additional dimensions, as well as the notion of user experience and perception, should be taken into account to improve recommendations' quality. In this work, HybA, a hybrid recommender system for automatic playlist continuation, that combines Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Case-Based Reasoning, is proposed. This system aims to address "similar concepts" rather than similar users. More than generating a playlist based on user requirements, like automatic playlist generation methods, HybA identifies the semantic characteristics of a started playlist and reuses the most similar past ones, to recommend relevant playlist continuations. In addition, support to beyond accuracy dimensions, like increased coherence or diverse items' discovery, is provided. To overcome the semantic gap between music descriptions and user preferences, identify playlist structures and capture songs' similarity, a graph model is used. Experiments on real datasets have shown that the proposed algorithm is able to outperform other state of the art techniques, in terms of accuracy, while balancing between diversity and coherence.
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