Learning and adaptivity in interactive recommender systems

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 258, Issue , 2007, Pages 75-84

  Mahmood, Tariq ^a   Ricci, Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptivity; Conversational recommender systems; Markov decision process; Reinforcement learning

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; USER INTERFACES;

INTERACTIVE RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; MARKOV DECISION PROCESS (MDP); OPTIMAL STRATEGY; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING (RL) TECHNIQUES;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 36849060222     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1282100.1282114     Document Type: Conference Paper

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