Estimating confidence of individual rating predictions in collaborative filtering recommender systems

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3847-3857

  Mazurowski, Maciej A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative filtering; Confidence estimation; Recommender systems

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING ALGORITHMS; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING SYSTEMS; COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; CONFIDENCE ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; RATING; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING;

EID: 84875363662     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.12.102     Document Type: Article

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