The rating prediction task in a group recommender system that automatically detects groups: architectures, algorithms, and performance evaluation

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 221-245

  Boratto, Ludovico ^a   Carta, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clustering; Group recommendation; Rating prediction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FORECASTING;

CLUSTERING; GROUP RECOMMENDATIONS; GROUP RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; PREDICTION TASKS;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84947649721     PISSN: 09259902     EISSN: 15737675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10844-014-0346-z     Document Type: Article

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