Learning users' interests by quality classification in market-based recommender systems

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1678-1688

  Wei, Yan Zheng ^a,c   Moreau, Luc ^b   Jennings, Nicholas R ^b,d,e,f,g  

^a BRITISH TELECOM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c BT Group   (United Kingdom)

^d School (Research)   (United Kingdom)

^e Intell Agents Multimedia Group   (United Kingdom)

^f Lost Wax ^*  (United Kingdom)

^g Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information filtering; Machine learning; Markets; Recommender systems

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN EXPLORATION STRATEGY; INFORMATION FILTERING; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MARKETING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 30344458463     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2005.200     Document Type: Article

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