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

ACM Transactions on the Web

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

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

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d State University

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; IMAGE QUALITY; TRACKING (POSITION);

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

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 34548718744     PISSN: 15591131     EISSN: 1559114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1255438.1255440     Document Type: Article

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