Accelerated learning of user profiles

Management Science

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 215-239

  Atahan, Pelin ^a   Sarkar, Sumit ^b  

^a OZYEGIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian learning; Information theory; Personalization; Recommendation systems

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN LEARNING; MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTES; PERSONALIZATIONS; RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS; USER INTERACTION; USER PROFILE;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFORMATION THEORY;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 79951883958     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1100.1266     Document Type: Article

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