Swarming to rank for recommender systems

RecSys'12 - Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 229-232

  Diaz Aviles, Ernesto ^a   Georgescu, Mihai ^a   Nejdl, Wolfgang ^a  

^a L3S RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collaborative filtering; Matrix factorization; PSO; Recommender systems; Swarm intelligence

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; DATA SETS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FEATURE VECTORS; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; INTERACTION MATRICES; LINEAR RANKING; MATRIX FACTORIZATIONS; PARTICLE SWARM; PERFORMANCE QUALITY; PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATION; PREDICTION TASKS; PSO; RANKING FUNCTIONS; SWARM INTELLIGENCE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84867366723     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2365952.2366001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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