A performance prediction approach to enhance collaborative filtering performance

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5993 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 382-393

  Bellogín, Alejandro ^a   Castells, Pablo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Collaborative filtering; Neighbor selection; Performance prediction; Query clarity; Recommender systems

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

IR FIELDS; NEIGHBOR SELECTION; NEIGHBORHOOD SIZE; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; PREDICTED PERFORMANCE; QUERY CLARITY; QUERY PERFORMANCE; RESEARCH TOPICS;

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING;

EID: 77952305016     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12275-0_34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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