Exploiting Bhattacharyya similarity measure to diminish user cold-start problem in sparse data

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8777, Issue , 2014, Pages 252-263

  Patra, Bidyut Kr ^a   Launonen, Raimo ^a   Ollikainen, Ville ^a   Nandi, Sukumar ^b  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

Bhattacharyya measure; Cold start problem; Data sparsity; Neighborhood based CF; Similarity measure

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

BHATTACHARYYA MEASURE; COLD START PROBLEMS; DATA SPARSITY; EFFECTIVE APPROACHES; PERSONALIZED PRODUCTS; PRODUCT RECOMMENDER SYSTEM; SIMILARITY MEASURE; STATE OF THE ART;

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING;

EID: 84908689581     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-11812-3_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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