Improving the effectiveness of knowledge based recommender systems using incomplete linguistic preference relations

International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowldege-Based Systems

Volumn 16, Issue SUPPL.2, 2008, Pages 33-56

  Martínezt, Luis ^a   PÉrez, Luis G ^a   Barranco, Manuel ^a   Espinilla, MacArena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

E commerce; E services; Fuzzy linguistic approach; Incomplete preference relations; Linguistic 2 tuples; Recommender systems

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

2-TUPLE; 2-TUPLES; E- COMMERCES; E-SERVICES; EFFECTIVENESS OF KNOWLEDGE; FUZZY LINGUISTIC APPROACH; INCOMPLETE LINGUISTIC PREFERENCE RELATIONS; INCOMPLETE PREFERENCE RELATIONS; KNOWLEDGE-BASED RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; LINGUISTIC 2-TUPLE;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 51449110151     PISSN: 02184885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218488508005479     Document Type: Conference Paper

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