A multi-criteria collaborative filtering recommender system for the tourism domain using Expectation Maximization (EM) and PCA-ANFIS

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 542-562

  Nilashi, Mehrbakhsh ^a   Bin Ibrahim, Othman ^a   Ithnin, Norafida ^a   Sarmin, Nor Haniza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

ANFIS; Clustering; Expectation Maximization; Multi criteria CF; PCA; Tourist recommendation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY SYSTEMS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; HOTELS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFERENCE ENGINES; INFORMATION FILTERING; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ANFIS; CLUSTERING; EXPECTATION - MAXIMIZATIONS; MULTI-CRITERIA; PCA; TOURIST RECOMMENDATION;

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING;

EID: 84949539778     PISSN: 15674223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elerap.2015.08.004     Document Type: Article

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