Clustering recommenders in collaborative filtering using explicit trust information

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 358 AICT, Issue , 2011, Pages 82-97

  Pitsilis, Georgios ^a   Zhang, Xiangliang ^b   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Affinity Propagation; Clustering; Epinions.com; Recommender Systems; Social Trust

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; INFORMATION USE; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

AFFINITY PROPAGATION; CLUSTERING; EPINIONS.COM; EVALUATION TEST; EXPLICIT TRUSTS; HIGH QUALITY; SOCIAL TRUST; TRADITIONAL CLUSTERING;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 79960746540     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22200-9_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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