Experiments on the preference-based organization interface in recommender systems

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Chen, Li ^a   Pu, Pearl ^b  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Association rule mining; Critique suggestion; Preference based organization; Recommender system; Simulation; User evaluation

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION RULE MINING; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; E-COMMERCE; PREFERENCE-BASED; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; SECOND GENERATION; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; USER EVALUATIONS;

ASSOCIATION RULES; ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSING;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 77950651002     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1721831.1721836     Document Type: Article

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