The impact of data obfuscation on the accuracy of collaborative filtering

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 5033-5042

  Berkovsky, Shlomo ^a   Kuflik, Tsvi ^b   Ricci, Francesco ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Collaborative filtering; Data obfuscation; Recommender systems

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CENTRALIZED SYSTEMS; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; DATA OBFUSCATION; DATA SETS; PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATION; POSITIVE ATTITUDE; PREDICTION ACCURACY; PRIVACY BREACHES; SIDE EFFECT; USER PROFILE; USER RATING; USER STUDY;

FORECASTING; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 84855897737     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.11.037     Document Type: Article

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