Enhancing scalability and accuracy of recommendation systems using unsupervised learning and particle swarm optimization

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 15, Issue , 2014, Pages 21-29

  Bakshi, Sagarika ^a   Jagadev, Alok Kumar ^a   Dehuri, Satchidananda ^b   Wang, Gi Nam ^b  

^a SIKSHA O ANUSANDHAN DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Ajou University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Alpha estimates; Collaborative filtering; Particle swarm optimization; Recommendation system; Sparsity measures; Unified measures of sparsity

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ESTIMATES; COLD START PROBLEMS; COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTIONARY METHOD; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; SPARSITY MEASURES; SPARSITY PROBLEMS; UNIFIED MEASURES OF SPARSITY;

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; ESTIMATION; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); SCALABILITY; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84888119718     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2013.10.018     Document Type: Article

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