Key figure impact in trust-enhanced recommender systems

AI Communications

Volumn 21, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 127-143

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

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold start problem; Recommender system; Social network analysis; Trust network

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; GRAPH THEORY; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

COLD START PROBLEM; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; EARLY STAGES; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCES; RANDOM USERS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEM; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; TRUST NETWORK; TRUST NETWORKS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 57349193485     PISSN: 09217126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/AIC-2008-0431     Document Type: Conference Paper

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