Improved trust-aware recommender system using small-worldness of trust networks

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 232-238

  Yuan, Weiwei ^a   Guan, Donghai ^a   Lee, Young Koo ^a   Lee, Sungyoung ^a   Hur, Sung Jin ^b  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Recommender system; Small world network; Trust; Trust network

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC NATURE; ONLINE SITES; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; SMALL WORLD NETWORKS; SMALL WORLDS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TRUST NETWORKS;

EID: 77549084183     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2009.12.004     Document Type: Article

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