A collaborative filtering approach to mitigate the new user cold start problem

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 26, Issue , 2012, Pages 225-238

  Bobadilla, Jesús ^a   Ortega, Fernando ^a   Hernando, Antonio ^a   Bernal, Jesús ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cold start; Collaborative filtering; Leave one out cross validation; Neural learning; Recommender systems; Similarity measures

Indexed keywords

COLD START; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; LEAVE-ONE-OUT-CROSS VALIDATION; NEURAL LEARNING; SIMILARITY MEASURE;

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84155181004     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2011.07.021     Document Type: Article

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