Social trust as a solution to address sparsity-inherent problems of recommender systems

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 532, Issue , 2009, Pages 33-40

  Pitsilis, Georgios ^a   Knapskog, Svein J ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Data sparsity problem cold start problem; Recommender systems; Social network; Trust modeling

Indexed keywords

COLD START PROBLEMS; EXISTING SYSTEMS; SPARSITY PROBLEMS; TRUST MODELING; WEB OF TRUST;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84888378698     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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