Assessing regret-based preference elicitation with the UTPref recommendation system

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 219-228

  Braziunas, Darius ^a   Boutilier, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

recommender systems; user studies; utility elicitation

Indexed keywords

AD-HOC QUERIES; DECISION CRITERIONS; MINIMAX REGRET; MINIMAX REGRET CRITERION; PREFERENCE ELICITATION; PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION; QUERY TYPES; RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; USER STUDY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 77954755670     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1807342.1807377     Document Type: Conference Paper

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