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Improving Recommendation Quality by Merging Collaborative Filtering and Social Relationships

De Meo, Pasquale and Ferrara, Emilio and Fiumara, Giacomo and Provetti, Alessandro (2011) Improving Recommendation Quality by Merging Collaborative Filtering and Social Relationships. [Conference Paper]

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Abstract

Matrix Factorization techniques have been successfully applied to raise the quality of suggestions generated by Collaborative Filtering Systems (CFSs). Traditional CFSs based on Matrix Factorization operate on the ratings provided by users and have been recently extended to incorporate demographic aspects such as age and gender. In this paper we propose to merge CF techniques based on Matrix Factorization and information regarding social friendships in order to provide users with more accurate suggestions and rankings on items of their interest. The proposed approach has been evaluated on a real-life online social network; the experimental results show an improvement against existing CF approaches. A detailed comparison with related literature is also present

Item Type:Conference Paper
Subjects:Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence
ID Code:7651
Deposited By: Ferrara, Dr. Emilio
Deposited On:01 Oct 2011 00:34
Last Modified:01 Oct 2011 00:34

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