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Almost all studies on course recommenders in online platforms target closed online platforms that belong to a University or other provider. Recently, a demand has developed that targets open platforms. Such platforms lack rich user profiles with content metadata. Instead they log user interactions. We report on how user interactions and activities tracked in open online learning platforms may generate...
Collaborative filtering algorithm is currently the most widely used and a very efficient technology in personalized recommendation system. To overcome several defects in the research of the traditional Item-based collaborative filtering algorithm, this paper presents a optimized algorithm in two aspects, which are the selection of neighbors and the prediction of ratings. Firstly, different numbers...
QoS prediction has become an important step in service recommending and selecting. Most QoS prediction approaches are using collaborative filtering as a prediction technique. But collaborative filtering may suffer from data sparsity problem which degrade the prediction accuracy. In order to alleviate the data sparsity problem of collaborative filtering, we presented a hybrid QoS prediction approach...
Existing service recommendation methods, that employ memory-based collaborative filtering (CF) techniques, compute the similarity between users or items using nonfunctional attribute values obtained at service invocation. However, using these nonfunctional attribute values from invoked services alone in similarity computation for personalized service recommendation is not sufficient. This is because...
Web service recommendation plays an important role in building reliable service-oriented systems for both the service providers and the active users. However, with the proliferation of web services on the World Wide Web, traditional service recommendation is hard to accurately provide customized services to active users. In this paper, we propose a novel web service recommender model using collaborative...
With the increasing popularity of Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs), users have shared information about places they have visited, creating a link between the real world (their movements on the globe) and the virtual world (what they express about these movements on the LBSNs). In this article, we propose the SiST model, which contains information captured from different dimensions (Social, Spatial...
“Collaborative filtering” (CF) methods provide a good solution for recommendation systems. Neighborhood formation is considered as the main phase in memory approaches. Unfortunately, this phase encounters many problems such as sparsity and scalability, especially for huge datasets which consists of a large number of users and items. This paper presents a new hybrid approach for collaborative filtering...
Collaborative filtering method was widely used in the recommendation system. This method was able to provide recommendations to the user through the similarity values between users. However, the central issues in this method were new user issue and sparsity. This paper discusses about how to use matrix factorization and nearest-neighbour in film recommendation systems. Both of methods will be used...
Recommender systems are designed in such a way that they sort through massive amounts of data so as to help users in finding their preferred items. Currently much research on recommender systems focus on improving the prediction or classification accuracy of the respective algorithms while behavioral aspects are often overlooked. In this paper we focus on a particular behavioral property called monotonicity...
the present study utilizes social computing techniques to enhance the content-based recommender systems. Coined as Enhanced Content-based Algorithm using Social Networking (ECSN), this recommender algorithm is applied in academic social networks to suggest the most relevant items to members of these online societies. In addition to considering user's own preferences, ECSN takes advantage of the interest...
Collaborative filtering (CF) predicts user preferences in item selection based on the known user ratings of items. As one of the most common approach to recommender systems, CF has been proved to be effective for solving the information overload problem. CF can be divided into two main branches: memory-based and model-based. Most of the present researches improve the accuracy of Memory-based algorithms...
This paper aims on collaborative filtering (CF) in TV recommendation system which combines content-based and collaborative filtering recommendation mechanism, we propose an algorithm that using the self-organizing mapping (SOM) to optimize the improved k-means (IK) clustering in collaborative filtering. The whole clustering algorithm is divided into two phases: at the first stage, the quantity of...
Traditional recommender systems use collaborative filtering or content-based methods to recommend new items for users. New users and items are continuously updated to the system bringing changes in user's preferences, as well as the additional context in form of temporal information. The continuous system updates change not just individual user's preferences, but also group user's preferences affecting...
Collaborative filtering (CF) is the most popular approach to build recommender systems and has been successfully employed in many applications. However, it suffers from several inherent deficiencies such as data sparsity and cold start. To better show user preferences for the cold users additional information (e.g., trust) is often applied. We describe the stages based on which the ratings of an active...
Recommender system is a solution to the information overload problem in websites that allow users to express their interests about items. Collaborative filtering is one of the most important methods in recommender systems which predicts ratings for active user based on opinions and interests of other users who are similar to the active user. Accuracy of ratings prediction can be considerably improved...
Recommendation can be reduced to a sub-problem of link prediction, with specific nodes (users and items) and links (similar relations among users/items, and interactions between users and items). However, the previous link prediction algorithms need to be modified to suit the recommendation cases since they do not consider the separation of these two fundamental relations: similar or dissimilar and...
In this paper we examine an advanced collaborative filtering method that uses similarity transitivity concepts. By propagating "similarity" between users, in a similar way as with "trust", we can significantly expand the space of potential recommenders and system's coverage, improving also the recommendations' accuracy. While "trust" information might be missing or be...
With the development of personalized recommendation, the method of user interest prediction has been a hot research topic. Usually, predict methods use individual related parameters such as user ratings to infer possible user interests. A potential problem with these methods is that the credibility of the user ratings is rarely questioned or considered during the process of prediction. However, as...
In QoS-based Web service recommendation, predicting QoS(Quality of Service) for service users will greatly aid service selection and discovery. In order to improve the prediction accuracy of Collaborative filtering algorithms, various factors are taken into account (e.g., location factor, environment, etc.). But seldom do investigators take the factor of time into account. Actually, QoS performance...
Collaborative Filtering (CF) is one of the most effective technologies in making rating prediction for recommender systems. Traditional user-based CF methods take user-item matrices as input and compute the prediction value based on user similarity. The computation of similarity between each user pair requires exact matching on item set by finding a minimum number of same items rated by both users...
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