Letting users choose recommender algorithms: An experimental study

RecSys 2015 - Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 11-18

  Ekstrand, Michael D ^a   Kluver, Daniel ^b   Harper, F Maxwell ^b   Konstan, Joseph A ^b  

^a Texas State University   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Experiment; Field study; Recommender systems

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; EXPERIMENTS; FACTORIZATION; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

DATA-SOURCES; FIELD STUDIES; MATRIX FACTORIZATIONS; MOVIE RECOMMENDATIONS; MOVIELENS; RECOMMENDER ALGORITHMS; USER BEHAVIORS; USER INTERACTION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84962798443     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2792838.2800195     Document Type: Conference Paper

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