Generating effective recommendations by exploiting viewing time and item attributes

DESRIST 2007 Conference Proceedings - 2nd International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 89-108

  Parsons, Jeffrey ^a   Ralph, Paul ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Online behavior; Preferences; Recommender systems; Viewing time

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE DATA; ATTRIBUTE VALUES; EXISTING SYSTEMS; LABORATORY STUDIES; ONLINE BEHAVIOR; PERSONAL INFORMATION; PREFERENCES; VIEWING TIME;

DESIGN; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84880178698     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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