Using collaborative filtering to overcome the curse of dimensionality when clustering users in a group recommender system

ICEIS 2014 - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 564-572

  Boratto, Ludovico ^a   Carta, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clustering; Collaborative Filtering; Curse of Dimensionality; Group Recommendation; Prediction Accuracy

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CLASSIFICATION PROCESS; CLUSTERING; CLUSTERING USERS; CURSE OF DIMENSIONALITY; GROUP RECOMMENDATIONS; GROUP RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; PREDICTION ACCURACY;

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING;

EID: 84902308647     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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