• 지식경영연구
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.149-169
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• 2015

In this study, we try to understand the role of online social recommendation and the similarity of preferences between the recommender and the recommendee on consumer decisions in the framework of the two stage purchase decision-making process. Applying construal level theory to our context, we expect that the role of social recommendation and the similarity of preferences would vary over the stages in the two-stage decision making process. To test our hypotheses, we collected the data through an incentive compatible experiment, and analyzed the data with nested logit model. As a result, we found that the role of online social recommendation varies over the stages. Consumers take recommendation from similar others at the stage of consideration set formation, but no longer consider it at the stage of final choice. Consumers take recommendation from dissimilar others at the stage of consideration set formation. At the stage of final choice, however, consumers avoid choosing the option recommended by dissimilar others. The results of our study enrich the understanding about the role of social recommendation, and have implication to marketing practitioners who attempt to make online social recommendation system more efficient.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2013

In this paper, we evaluate performance of existing similarity measurement metric and propose a novel method using user's preferences information entropy to reduce MAE in memory-based collaborative recommender systems. The proposed method applies a similarity of individual inclination to traditional similarity measurement methods. We experiment on various similarity metrics under different conditions, which include an amount of data and significance weighting from n/10 to n/60, to verify the proposed method. As a result, we confirm the proposed method is robust and efficient from the viewpoint of a sparse data set, applying existing various similarity measurement methods and Significance Weighting.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.13-18
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• 2008

This paper explores a content-based image retrieval framework with relevance feedback based on genetic algorithm (GA). This framework adopts GA to learn the user preferences using the similarity functions defined for all available descriptors. The objective of the GA-based learning methods is to learn the user preferences using the similarity functions and to find a descriptor combination function that best represents the user perception. Experiments were performed to validate the proposed frameworks. The experiments employed the natural image databases and color and texture descriptors to represent the content of database images. The proposed frameworks were compared with the other two relevance feedback methods regarding effectiveness in image retrieval tasks. Experiment results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.221-228
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• 2020

This study suggests an alternative to the conventional collaborative filtering method for predicting consumer choice, using case-based reasoning. The algorithm of case-based reasoning determines the similarity between the alternative sets that each subject chooses. Case-based reasoning uses the inverse of the normalized Euclidian distance as a similarity measurement. This normalized distance is calculated by the ratio of difference between each attribute level relative to the maximum range between the lowest and highest level. The alternative case-based reasoning based on similarity predicts a target subject's choice by applying the utility values of the subjects most similar to the target subject to calculate the utility of the profiles that the target subject chooses. This approach assumes that subjects who deliberate in a similar alternative set may have similar preferences for each attribute level in decision making. The result shows the similarity between comparable alternatives the consumers consider buying is a significant factor to predict the consumer choice. Also the interaction effect has a positive influence on the predictive accuracy. This implies the consumers who looked into the same alternatives can probably pick up the same product at the end. The suggested alternative requires fewer predictors than conjoint analysis for predicting customer choices.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권7호
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• pp.3128-3149
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• 2018

A number of effective methods for multiple-attribute group decision making (MAGDM) with interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (IVIFNs) have been proposed in recent years. However, the different methods frequently yield different, even sometimes contradictory, results for the same problem. In this paper a novel criterion to determine the advantages and disadvantages of different methods is proposed. First, the decision-making process is divided into three parts: translation of experts' preferences, aggregation of experts' opinions, and comparison of the alternatives. Experts' preferences aggregation is considered the core step, and the quality of the collective matrix is considered the most important evaluation index for the aggregation methods. Then, methods to calculate the similarity measure, correlation, correlation coefficient, and energy of the intuitionistic fuzzy matrices are proposed, which are employed to evaluate the collective matrix. Thus, the optimal method can be selected by comparing the collective matrices when all the methods yield different results. Finally, a novel approach for aggregating experts' preferences with IVIFN is presented. In this approach, experts' preferences are mapped as points into two-dimensional planes, with the plant growth simulation algorithm (PGSA) being employed to calculate the optimal rally points, which are inversely mapped to IVIFNs to establish the collective matrix. In the study, four different methods are used to address one example problem to illustrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed approach.

• 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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• 제16호
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• pp.3-9
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• 1998

The purpose of this research is to empirically validate the IIPS (Interior Image Preference Scale) which is a newly developed visual instrument for evaluating the environmental disposition inherent to individuals especially one's interior image preferences. The questionnaire survey was used. The data were collected from Oct. 10th 1997 to Nov. 14th 1997. The subjects were 399 undergraduate students and 30 professor of Dep. of Interior Design. With respect to content validity and construct validity of IIPS discrimination and similarity structure of scales and characteristics of 12 prototype interior images were examined in comparison with the originals. 429 questionnaires were analyzed using frequency percentage mean and Multi-Dimensional Scales. The major results were as follows (1) All 80 items of IIPS were discriminated by 3 criteria such as Traditionalism·Modernity(TM) Masculinity·Femininty (MF) and Simplicity·Complexity (SC) as expected at the time of the instrument development stage.(2) 12 prototype interior images of the IIPS showed tendency to be accord with descriptors to express them in comparison with the originals (3) All 90 items of IIPS showed a cluster distribution according to the similarity structure of scales. Three subscales of IIPS(e . g. TM MF and SC) were structured pretty well by those 3 dimensions. This research revealed the IIPS to have content validity and construct validity for evaluating of preference of three properties of interior image in empirical research. The IIPS was found to be potential objective tool to measure the interior image preferences.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제23권8호
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• pp.45-50
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• 2018

Many of the current successful commercial recommender systems utilize collaborative filtering techniques. This technique recommends products to the active user based on product preference history of the neighbor users. Those users with similar preferences to the active user are typically named his/her neighbors. Hence, finding neighbors is critical to performance of the system. Although much effort for developing similarity measures has been devoted in the literature, there leaves a lot to be improved, especially in the aspect of handling subjectivity or vagueness in user preference ratings. This paper addresses this problem and presents a novel similarity measure using fuzzy logic for selecting neighbors. Experimental studies are conducted to reveal that the proposed measure achieved significant performance improvement.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.867-871
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• 2022

최근 빠른 유행의 변화 속에서 디자인의 변화는 패션기업의 매출에 큰 영향을 미치기 때문에 기업들은 신제품디자인 선택에 신중할 수밖에 없다. 최근 인공지능 분야의 발달에 따라 패션시장에서도 소비자들의 선호도를 높이기 위해 다양한 기계학습을 많이 활용하고 있다. 우리는 선호도와 같은 추상적인 개념을 수치화함으로써 신제품 개발에 신뢰성을 높이는 부분에 기여하고자 한다. 이를 위해 3가지 적대적 생성 신경망(Generative adversial netwrok, GAN)을 통하여 기존에 없는 새로운 이미지를 생성하고, 미리 훈련된 합성곱 신경망(Convolution neural networkm, CNN)을 이용하여 선호도라는 추상적인 개념을 수치화시켜 비교하였다. 심층 컨볼루션 적대적 생성 신경망(Deep convolutional generative adversial netwrok, DCGAN), 점진적 성장 적대적 생성 신경망(Progressive growing generative adversial netwrok, PGGAN), 이중 판별기 적대적 생성 신경망(Dual Discriminator generative adversial netwrok, D2GAN)의 3가지 방법을 통해 새로운 이미지를 생성하였고, 판매량이 높았던 제품으로 훈련된 합성곱 신경망으로 유사도를 비교, 측정하였다. 측정된 유사도의 정도를 선호도로 간주하였으며 실험 결과 D2GAN이 DCGAN, PGGAN에 비해 상대적으로 높은 유사도를 보여주었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권12호
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• pp.3798-3814
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• 2022

Social recommendation algorithm can alleviate data sparsity and cold start problems in recommendation system by integrated social information. Among them, matrix-based decomposition algorithms are the most widely used and studied. Such algorithms use dot product operations to calculate the similarity between users and items, which ignores user's potential preferences, reduces algorithms' recommendation accuracy. This deficiency can be avoided by a metric learning-based social recommendation algorithm, which learns the distance between user embedding vectors and item embedding vectors instead of vector dot-product operations. However, previous works provide no theoretical explanation for its plausibility. Moreover, most works focus on the indirect impact of social friends on user's preferences, ignoring the direct impact on user's rating preferences, which is the influence of user rating preferences. To solve these problems, this study proposes a user bias drift social recommendation algorithm based on metric learning (BDML). The main work of this paper is as follows: (1) the process of introducing metric learning in the social recommendation scenario is introduced in the form of equations, and explained the reason why metric learning can replace the click operation; (2) a new user bias is constructed to simultaneously model the impact of social relationships on user's ratings preferences and user's preferences; Experimental results on two datasets show that the BDML algorithm proposed in this study has better recommendation accuracy compared with other comparison algorithms, and will be able to guarantee the recommendation effect in a more sparse dataset.

• 정보교육학회논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.281-288
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• 2007

협동적 필터링은 사용자가 좋아할 만한 항목을 예측하기 위하여 비슷한 선호도를 가지는 다른 사람들의 평가 항목에 근거하여 추천하는 방법이다. 이러한 협동적 필터링 기법은 오늘날과 같이 대규모의 정보가 효과적으로 축적되고 이용 가능하게 된 정보화된 사회에서는 현명한 의사결정을 하도록 도와주는 역할을 한다. 본 논문에서는 대학생들이 수강과목의 취사선택을 용이하게 할 수 있도록 수강과목 추천 시스템을 설계하고 구현하였으며 실험적으로 평가하였다. 먼저, 학생들은 과거 자신이 수강하였던 과목에 대한 과목 선호도를 데이터베이스에 입력한다. 과목 선호도의 패턴이 유사한 학생들은 유사 그룹으로 간주된다. 성향이 유사한 사용자를 찾기 위해 일반적으로 사용되고 있는 피어슨 상관계수에 의한 유사도를 이용하였다. 수강 과목을 예측하려는 학생과 가장 유사한 패턴을 보이는 K 명의 학생들의 수강 과목에서 가장 높은 선호도를 보이는 과목들의 순서화된 리스트를 추천 과목으로 제시한다. 설문 조사를 통한 실험 데이터를 이용하였으며 평균 절대 에러를 사용하여 제안한 방법의 정확도를 평가하였다.