Whom should i trust? The impact of key figures on cold start recommendations

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2014-2018

  Victor, Patricia ^a   Cornelis, Chris ^a   Teredesai, Ankur M ^b   De Cock, Martine ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold start problem; Recommender system; Trust network

Indexed keywords

RAPID SOLIDIFICATION;

COLD START PROBLEM; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; EARLY STAGES; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCES; HARD PROBLEMS; RANDOM USERS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEM; SOCIAL PREFERENCES; TRUST NETWORK; USER PROFILES;

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EID: 56749097294     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1363686.1364174     Document Type: Conference Paper

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