(Partial) user preference similarity as classification-based model similarity

Semantic Web

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 47-64

  Bouza, Amancio ^a   Bernstein, Abraham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

cold start problem; collaborative filtering; partial user similarity; User similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918550184     PISSN: 15700844     EISSN: 22104968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/SW-130099     Document Type: Conference Paper

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