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http://dx.doi.org/10.5626/JOK.2015.42.11.1380

A Strategy for Neighborhood Selection in Collaborative Filtering-based Recommender Systems  

Lee, Soojung (Gyeongin National Univ. of Education)
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Journal of KIISE / v.42, no.11, 2015 , pp. 1380-1385 More about this Journal
Abstract
Collaborative filtering is one of the most successfully used methods for recommender systems and has been utilized in various areas such as books and music. The key point of this method is selecting the most proper recommenders, for which various similarity measures have been studied. To improve recommendation performance, this study analyzes problems of existing recommender selection methods based on similarity and presents a method of dynamically determining recommenders based on the rate of co-rated items as well as similarity. Examination of performance with varying thresholds through experiments revealed that the proposed method yielded greatly improved results in both prediction and recommendation qualities, and that in particular, this method showed performance improvements with only a few recommenders satisfying the given thresholds.
Keywords
collaborative filtering; recommender system; similarity measure; nearest neighbor;
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