Representation, similarity measures and aggregation methods using fuzzy sets for content-based recommender systems

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 76-94

  Zenebe, Azene ^a   Norcio, Anthony F ^b  

^a BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical evaluation; Fuzzy connectives and aggregation operators; Fuzzy sets; Learning; Recommender systems

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; BENCHMARKING; CORRELATION METHODS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SET THEORY; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

AGGREGATION METHODS; COMPUTING; CONFIDENCE SCORES; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGES; EMPIRICAL EVALUATION; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; FUZZY CONNECTIVES AND AGGREGATION OPERATORS; FUZZY MODELING; FUZZY-SET; JACCARD INDICES; LEARNING; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; REPRESENTATION METHODS; SIMILARITY MEASURES; STOCHASTIC UNCERTAINTIES; USER FEEDBACKS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 54049134419     PISSN: 01650114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fss.2008.03.017     Document Type: Article

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