An Enhanced Similarity Measure for Collaborative Filtering-based Recommender Systems

Author(s):  
Hamid Ghaleb ◽  
M. Abdullah-Al-Wadud
2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 6118-6128 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Srikanth ◽  
M. Shashi

Collaborative filtering is a popular approach in recommender Systems that helps users in identifying the items they may like in a wagon of items. Finding similarity among users with the available item ratings so as to predict rating(s) for unseen item(s) based on the preferences of likeminded users for the current user is a challenging problem. Traditional measures like Cosine similarity and Pearson correlation’s correlation exhibit some drawbacks in similarity calculation. This paper presents a new similarity measure which improves the performance of Recommender System. Experimental results on MovieLens dataset show that our proposed distance measure improves the quality of prediction. We present clustering results as an extension to validate the effectiveness of our proposed method.


Author(s):  
Tajul Rosli Razak ◽  
Mohammad Hafiz Ismail ◽  
Shukor Sanim Mohd Fauzi ◽  
Ray Adderley JM Gining ◽  
Ruhaila Maskat

<span lang="EN-GB">A recommender system is an algorithm aiming at giving suggestions to users on relevant elements or items such as products to purchase, books to read, jobs to apply or anything else depending on industries or situations. Recently, there has been a surge in interest in developing a recommender system in a variety of areas. One of the most widely used approaches in recommender systems is collaborative filtering (CF). The CF is a strategy for automatically creating a filter based on a user's needs by extracting desires or recommendation information from a large number of users. The CF approach uses multiple correlation steps to do this. However, the occurrence of uncertainty in finding the best similarity measure is unavoidable. This paper outlines a method for improving the configuration of a recommender system that is tasked with recommending an appropriate study field and supervisor to a group of final-year project students. The framework we suggest is built on a participatory design methodology that allows students' individual opinions to be factored into the recommender system's design. The architecture of the recommender scheme was also illustrated using a real-world scenario, namely mapping the students' field of interest to a possible supervisor for the final year project.</span>


In recent years there is a drastic increase in information over the internet. Users get confused to find out best product on the internet of one’s interest. Here the recommender system helps to filter the information and gives relevant recommendations to users so that the user community can find the item(s) of their interest from huge collection of available data. But filtering information from the users reviews given for various items seems to be a challenging task for recommending the user interested things. In general similarities between the users are considered for recommendations in collaborative filtering techniques. This paper describes a new collaborative filtering technique called Adaptive Similarity Measure Model [ASMM] to identify similarity between users for the selection of unseen items. Out of all the available items most similarities would be sorted out by ASMM for recommendation which varies from user to user


2019 ◽  
Vol 487 ◽  
pp. 142-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shan Jiang ◽  
Shu-Cherng Fang ◽  
Qi An ◽  
John E. Lavery

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (Special-Issue) ◽  
pp. 122-130
Author(s):  
Yue Huang ◽  
Xuedong Gao ◽  
Shujuan Gu

Abstract User similarity measurement plays a key role in collaborative filtering recommendation which is the most widely applied technique in recommender systems. Traditional user-based collaborative filtering recommendation methods focus on absolute rating difference of common rated items while neglecting the relative rating level difference to the same items. In order to overcome this drawback, we propose a novel user similarity measure which takes into account the degree of rating the level gap that users could accept. The results of collaborative filtering recommendation based on User Acceptable Rating Radius (UARR) on a real movie rating data set, the MovieLens data set, prove to generate more accurate prediction results compared to the traditional similarity methods.


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