Facing the cold start problem in recommender systems

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 4 PART 2, 2014, Pages 2065-2073

  Lika, Blerina ^a   Kolomvatsos, Kostas ^a   Hadjiefthymiades, Stathes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cold start problem; Recommender systems

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; COLD START PROBLEMS; DEMOGRAPHIC DATA; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATION; PREDICTION MECHANISMS; RESEARCH GROUPS;

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84888332887     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2013.09.005     Document Type: Article

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