Leveraging clustering approaches to solve the gray-sheep users problem in recommender systems

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3261-3275

  Ghazanfar, Mustansar Ali ^a   Prügel Bennett, Adam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaborative filtering; Gray sheep users; K Means clustering; Recommender systems

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; DATA MINING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

CLUSTERING APPROACH; COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE; GRAY-SHEEP USERS; HYBRID RECOMMENDATION; K - MEANS CLUSTERING; K-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHM; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; SIMILARITY THRESHOLD;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84890592321     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2013.11.010     Document Type: Article

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