A collaborative recommender system based on probabilistic inference from fuzzy observations

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Volumn 159, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1554-1576

  de Campos, Luis M ^a   Fernández Luna, Juan M ^a   Huete, Juan F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Collaborative recommender system; Fuzzy observations

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; USER INTERFACES;

COLLABORATIVE RECOMMENDER SYSTEM; FUZZY OBSERVATIONS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 43449089196     PISSN: 01650114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fss.2008.01.016     Document Type: Article

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