An empirical study of a cross-level association rule mining approach to cold-start recommendations

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 515-529

  Leung, Cane Wing ki ^a   Chan, Stephen Chi fai ^a   Chung, Fu lai ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Association rule mining; Cold start problem; Collaborative filtering; Recommender systems

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION RULE MINING; COLD START PROBLEMS; COLD-START PROBLEM; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

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EID: 51049105928     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2008.03.012     Document Type: Article

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