Selectively acquiring ratings for product recommendation

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 258, Issue , 2007, Pages 379-388

  Huang, Zan ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active learning; Collaborative filtering; Recommender systems; Sampling

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LEARNING; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION;

EID: 36849010669     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1282100.1282171     Document Type: Conference Paper

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