Simultaneous co-clustering and learning to address the cold start problem in recommender systems

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 82, Issue , 2015, Pages 11-19

  Vizine Pereira, Andre Luiz ^a,b   Hruschka, Eduardo Raul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Rubens Lara College of Technology FATEC RL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Co clustering; Cold starting; Predictive modeling; Recommender system

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

CO-CLUSTERING; COLD START PROBLEMS; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING RECOMMENDATIONS; COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION; DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; HYBRID RECOMMENDATION APPROACHES; PREDICTIVE MODELING; REAL-WORLD DATASETS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 84928054067     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2015.02.016     Document Type: Article

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