Multi-criteria collaborative filtering using rough sets theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 907-917
Author(s):  
Emin T. Demirkiran ◽  
Muhammet Y. Pak ◽  
Rasim Cekik

Recommender systems have recently become a significant part of e-commerce applications. Through the different types of recommender systems, collaborative filtering is the most popular and successful recommender system for providing recommendations. Recent studies have shown that using multi-criteria ratings helps the system to know the customers better. However, bringing multi aspects to collaborative filtering causes new challenges such as scalability and sparsity. Additionally, revealing the relation between criteria is yet another optimization problem. Hence, increasing the accuracy in prediction is a challenge. In this paper, an aggregation-function based multi-criteria collaborative filtering system using Rough Sets Theory is proposed as a novel approach. Rough Sets Theory is used to uncover the relationship between the overall criterion and the individual criteria. Experimental results show that the proposed model (RoughMCCF) successfully improves the predictive accuracy without compromising on online performance.

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Zhang ◽  
Quanshen Wei ◽  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Baojiao Wang ◽  
Wen-Hsien Ho

Conventional recommender systems are designed to achieve high prediction accuracy by recommending items expected to be the most relevant and interesting to users. Therefore, they tend to recommend only the most popular items. Studies agree that diversity of recommendations is as important as accuracy because it improves the customer experience by reducing monotony. However, increasing diversity reduces accuracy. Thus, a recommendation algorithm is needed to recommend less popular items while maintaining acceptable accuracy. This work proposes a two-stage collaborative filtering optimization mechanism that obtains a complete and diversified item list. The first stage of the model incorporates multiple interests to optimize neighbor selection. In addition to using conventional collaborative filtering to predict ratings by exploiting available ratings, the proposed model further considers the social relationships of the user. A novel ranking strategy is then used to rearrange the list of top-N items while maintaining accuracy by (1) rearranging the area controlled by the threshold and by (2) maximizing popularity while maintaining an acceptable reduction in accuracy. An extensive experimental evaluation performed in a real-world dataset confirmed that, for a given loss of accuracy, the proposed model achieves higher diversity compared to conventional approaches.


2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 653-663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ritu Meena ◽  
Kamal K. Bharadwaj

Abstract Many recommender systems frequently make suggestions for group consumable items to the individual users. There has been much work done in group recommender systems (GRSs) with full ranking, but partial ranking (PR) where items are partially ranked still remains a challenge. The ultimate objective of this work is to propose rank aggregation technique for effectively handling the PR problem. Additionally, in real applications, most of the studies have focused on PR without ties (PRWOT). However, the rankings may have ties where some items are placed in the same position, but where some items are partially ranked to be aggregated may not be permutations. In this work, in order to handle problem of PR in GRS for PRWOT and PR with ties (PRWT), we propose a novel approach to GRS based on genetic algorithm (GA) where for PRWOT Spearman foot rule distance and for PRWT Kendall tau distance with bucket order are used as fitness functions. Experimental results are presented that clearly demonstrate that our proposed GRS based on GA for PRWOT (GRS-GA-PRWOT) and PRWT (GRS-GA-PRWT) outperforms well-known baseline GRS techniques.


2011 ◽  
Vol 130-134 ◽  
pp. 1681-1685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guang Tian ◽  
Hao Tian ◽  
Guang Sheng Liu ◽  
Jin Hui Zhao ◽  
Li Ping Luo

The diagnosis of compound-fault is always a difficult point, and there is not an effective method in equipment diagnosis field, then a new method of compound-fault diagnosis was presented. The vibration signals at start-up in the gearbox are non-stationary signals, and traditional ways of diagnosis have low precision. Order tracking and wavelet packet and rough sets theory are introduced in the compound-fault diagnosis of bearing. First, the vibration signals at start-up were resampled using computer order tracking arithmetic and equal angle distributed vibration signals were obtained, and wavelet packet has been used for equal angle distributed vibration signals decomposition and reconstruction. Then, energy distribution of every frequency band can be calculated according to normalization process. A new feature vector can be obtained, then clear and concise decision rules can be obtained by rough sets theory. Finally, the result of compound-fault example proves that the proposed method has high validity and more amplitude appliance foreground.


Author(s):  
Hirofumi Toyama ◽  
Tomonobu Senjyu ◽  
Shantanu Chakraborty ◽  
Atsushi Yona ◽  
Toshihisa Funabashi ◽  
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