Selecting a small number of products for effective user profiling in collaborative filtering

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3055-3062

  Ahn, Hyung Jun ^a   Kang, Hyunjeong ^a   Lee, Jinpyo ^a  

^a Hong Ik University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Collaborative filtering; Information theory; Product selection; User profiling

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; DATA SETS; ONLINE STORE; PERSONALIZED PRODUCTS; PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATION; PRODUCT SELECTION; RESEARCH STUDIES; USER PROFILING;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION THEORY;

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

EID: 71349086363     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.09.025     Document Type: Article

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