• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.183-200
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• 2009

Collaborative Filtering is one of the most used recommender systems. However, basically it cannot be used to recommend new products to customers because it finds products only based on the purchasing history of each customer. In order to cope with this shortcoming, many researchers have proposed the hybrid recommender system, which is a combination of collaborative filtering and content-based filtering. Content-based filtering recommends the products whose attributes are similar to those of the products that the target customers prefer. However, the hybrid method is used only for the limited categories of products such as music and movie, which are the products whose attributes are easily extracted. Therefore it is essential to find a more effective approach to recommend to customers new products in any category. In this study, we propose a new recommendation method which applies centrality concept widely used to analyze the relational and structural characteristics in social network analysis. The new products are recommended to the customers who are highly likely to buy the products, based on the analysis of the relationships among products by using centrality. The recommendation process consists of following four steps; purchase similarity analysis, product network construction, centrality analysis, and new product recommendation. In order to evaluate the performance of this proposed method, sales data from H department store, one of the well.known department stores in Korea, is used.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.24 no.12
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• pp.93-100
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• 2019

Similarity computation is very crucial to performance of memory-based collaborative filtering systems. These systems make use of user ratings to recommend products to customers in online commercial sites. For better recommendation, most similar users to the active user need to be selected for their references. There have been numerous similarity measures developed in literature, most of which suffer from data sparsity or cold start problems. This paper intends to extract preference information as much as possible from user ratings to compute more reliable similarity even in a sparse data condition, as compared to previous similarity measures. We propose a new similarity measure which relies not only on user ratings but also on movie genre information provided by the dataset. Performance experiments of the proposed measure and previous relevant measures are conducted to investigate their performance. As a result, it is found that the proposed measure yields better or comparable achievements in terms of major performance metrics.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.446-465
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• 2015

In this modern era of technology and information, e-learning approach has become an integral part of teaching and learning using modern technologies. There are different variations or classification of e-learning approaches. One of notable approaches is Personal Learning Environment (PLE). In a PLE system, the contents are presented to the user in a personalized manner (according to the user's needs and wants). The problem arises when a new user enters the system, and due to the lack of information about the new user's needs and wants, the system fails to recommend him/her the personalized e-learning contents accurately. This phenomenon is known as cold-start problem. In order to address this issue, existing researches propose different approaches for recommendation such as preference profile, user ratings and tagging recommendations. In this research paper, the implementation of a novel interaction-based approach is presented. The interaction-based approach improves the recommendation accuracy for the new-user cold-start problem by integrating preferences profile and tagging recommendation and utilizing the interaction among users and system. This research work takes leverage of the interaction of a new user with the PLE system and generates recommendation for the new user, both implicitly and explicitly, thus solving new-user cold-start problem. The result shows the improvement of 31.57% in Precision, 18.29% in Recall and 8.8% in F1-measure.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.10
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• pp.777-785
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• 2009

Collaborative filtering is a technique used to predict whether a particular user will like a particular item. User-based or item-based collaborative techniques have been used extensively in many commercial recommender systems. In this paper, a hybrid collaborative filtering method that combines user-based and item-based methods using a low-dimensional linear model is proposed. The proposed method solves the problems of sparsity and a large database by using NMF among the low-dimensional linear models. In collaborative filtering systems the methods using the NMF are useful in expressing users as semantic relations. However, they are model-based methods and the process of computation is complex, so they can not recommend items dynamically. In order to complement the shortcomings, the proposed method clusters users into groups by using NMF and selects features of groups by using TF-IDF. Mutual information is then used to compute similarities between items. The proposed method clusters users into groups and extracts features of groups on offline and determines the most suitable group for an active user using the features of groups on online. Finally, the proposed method reduces the time required to classify an active user into a group and outperforms previous methods by combining user-based and item-based collaborative filtering methods.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.9
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• pp.901-911
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• 2005

With the development of e-commerce and the proliferation of easily accessible information, information filtering has become a popular technique to prune large information spaces so that users are directed toward those items that best meet their needs and preferences. While many collaborative filtering systems have succeeded in capturing the similarities among users or items based on ratings to provide good recommendations, there are still some challenges for them to be more efficient, especially the user bias problem, non-transitive association problem and cold start problem. Those three problems impede us to capture more accurate similarities among users or items. In this paper, we provide probabilistic model approaches for UCHM and ICHM which are suggested to solve the addressed problems in hopes of achieving better performance. In this probabilistic model, objects (users or items) are classified into groups and predictions are made for users considering the Gaussian distribution of user ratings. Experiments on a real-word data set illustrate that our proposed approach is comparable with others.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.1-17
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• 2023

With the recent rapid development of ICT(Information and Communication Technology) and the popularization of digital devices, the size of the online market continues to grow. As a result, we live in a flood of information. Thus, customers are facing information overload problems that require a lot of time and money to select products. Therefore, a personalized recommender system has become an essential methodology to address such issues. Collaborative Filtering(CF) is the most widely used recommender system. Traditional recommender systems mainly utilize quantitative data such as rating values, resulting in poor recommendation accuracy. Quantitative data cannot fully reflect the user's preference. To solve such a problem, studies that reflect qualitative data, such as review contents, are being actively conducted these days. To quantify user review contents, text mining was used in this study. The general CF consists of the following three steps: user-item matrix generation, Top-N neighborhood group search, and Top-K recommendation list generation. In this study, we propose a recommendation algorithm that applies an extended similarity measure, which utilize quantified review contents in addition to user rating values. After calculating review similarity by applying TF-IDF, Word2Vec, and Doc2Vec techniques to review content, extended similarity is created by combining user rating similarity and quantified review contents. To verify this, we used user ratings and review data from the e-commerce site Amazon's "Health and Personal Care". The proposed recommendation model using extended similarity measure showed superior performance to the traditional recommendation model using only user rating value-based similarity measure. In addition, among the various text mining techniques, the similarity obtained using the TF-IDF technique showed the best performance when used in the neighbor group search and recommendation list generation step.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.289-292
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• 2000

인터넷이 생활의 일부분이 되어감에 따라 인터넷상에서 이루어지는 전자상거래는 빠르게 발전하고 있다. 지금까지의 전자상거래는 고객이 요구하는 제품을 판매하는 단순한 형태였다. 하지만 앞으로의 전자상거래에서는 고객이 선호할 만한 제품을 예상하여 고객에게 해당 제품을 추천해 줌으로서 양질의 서비스를 제공하고 더 많은 이익을 창출 할 수 있는 전자상거래 시스템이 요구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 전자상거래시스템에서 이용될 수 있는 추천시스템을 개발하기 위하여 추천시스템의 핵심이 되는 사용자간 유사도에 기초한 GroupLens의 협동적 필터링 알고리즘을 실제 Data Set을 통해서 실험하였다. 또한 Data Set을 분석하여 아이템을 대표할 수 있는 장르를 결정하여 전체 학습데이터로부터 대표장르에 속하는 데이터들만을 분리하여 학습데이터로 사용하는 추천시스템을 제안하였고, 실험을 통하여 제안한 추천시스템의 타당성을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06b
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• pp.381-383
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• 2012

협업필터링은 지금까지 많은 추천시스템 연구에서 비교대상이 되거나 더 좋은 추천시스템 방법론을 개발하기 위해서 응용되고 있다. 일반적으로 협업필터링 기법은 명시적으로 관찰된 사용자들의 행동을 기반하는 방법이다. 본 연구에서는 LDA(Latent Dirichlet Allocation)을 이용해 사용자와 추천 대상이 되는 아이템의 숨겨진 특성을 추출하고, 이를 협업필터링기법에 응용했다. 영화 추천시스템 구축을 위한 실험에서, 사용자의 선호도는 다양한 영화 장르를 선호하는 비율로 나타난다는 가정(사용자기반)과 영화 또한 장르의 비율로 표현이 된다는 가정(아이템기반)을 했다. 이러한 가정을 토대로 사용자 사이와 영화 사이 간의 유사도를 정의하고, 협업필터링에 적용했을 때, 전통적인 협업필터링 기법보다 뛰어난 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.312-319
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• 2002

A recommendation system tracks past action of a group of users to make a recommendation to individual members of the group. The computer-mediated marking and commerce have grown rapidly nowadays so the concerns about various recommendation procedure are increasing. We introduce a recommendation methodology by which Korean department store suggests products and services to their customers. The suggested methodology is based on decision tree, product taxonomy, and association rule mining. Decision tree is to select target customers, who have high purchase possibility of recommended products. Product taxonomy and association rule mining are used to select proper products. The validity of our recommendation methodology is discussed with the analysis of a real Korean department store.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.04a
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• pp.408-411
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• 2016

애플리케이션에서 고객들에 의해 생성된 평가정보는 해당 콘텐츠에 대한 고객별 선호도 정보로 볼 수 있기 때문에, 개인에게 맞춤형 추천 시스템을 설계하기 위해서 매우 중요하다. 현재 추천 시스템 분야에서 가장 많이 사용되고 있는 사용자 기반 추천 시스템은 사용자의 평점 정보만을 가지고 유사도를 측정하여 추천에 사용하고 있다. 그러나 이러한 평점 정보만을 가지고 사용자 유사도를 도출하는 것은 정밀하지 못할 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 사용자의 평점 정보 뿐만 아니라 콘텐츠의 내용을 활용하여 사용자의 선호 콘텐츠를 지식구조의 형태로 나타냄으로써 콘텐츠와 사용자의 관계를 유기적으로 표현하였다. 이와 같은 사용자의 지식구조를 바탕으로 사용자간의 유사도를 평가하고 추천에 활용하였고, 실험결과 제시된 방법으로 더 우수한 성능을 얻을 수 있는 것으로 나타났다.