Scouts, promoters, and connectors: The roles of ratings in nearest neighbor collaborative filtering

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 250-259

  Mohan, Bharath Kumar ^a   Keller, Benjamin J ^b   Ramakrishnan, Naren ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative filtering; Connectors; Neighborhoods; Promoters; Recommender systems; Scouts; User based and item based algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; SCOUTS; USER-BASED AND ITEM-BASED ALGORITHMS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 33748678902     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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