Author(s):  
Muhammad Sanwal ◽  
Cafer ÇALIŞKAN

In the current era, a rapid increase in data volume produces redundant information on the internet. This predicts the appropriate items for users a great challenge in information systems. As a result, recommender systems have emerged in this decade to resolve such problems. Various e-commerce platforms such as Amazon and Netflix prefer using some decent systems to recommend their items to users. In literature, multiple methods such as matrix factorization and collaborative filtering exist and have been implemented for a long time, however recent studies show that some other approaches, especially using artificial neural networks, have promising improvements in this area of research. In this research, we propose a new hybrid recommender system that results in better performance. In the proposed system, the users are divided into two main categories, namely average users, and non-average users. Then, various machine learning and deep learning methods are applied within these categories to achieve better results. Some methods such as decision trees, support vector regression, and random forest are applied to the average users. On the other side, matrix factorization, collaborative filtering, and some deep learning methods are implemented for non-average users. This approach achieves better compared to the traditional methods.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Outmane Bourkoukou ◽  
Essaid El Bachari

Personalized courseware authoring based on recommender system, which is the process of automatic learning objects selecting and sequencing, is recognized as one of the most interesting research field in intelligent web-based education. Since the learner’s profile of each learner is different from one to another, we must fit learning to the different needs of learners. In fact from the knowledge of the learner’s profile, it is easier to recommend a suitable set of learning objects to enhance the learning process. In this paper we describe a new adaptive learning system-LearnFitII, which can automatically adapt to the dynamic preferences of learners. This system recognizes different patterns of learning style and learners’ habits through testing the psychological model of learners and mining their server logs. Firstly, the device proposed a personalized learning scenario to deal with the cold start problem by using the Felder and Silverman’s model. Next, it analyzes the habits and the preferences of the learners through mining the information about learners’ actions and interactions. Finally, the learning scenario is revisited and updated using hybrid recommender system based on K-Nearest Neighbors and association rule mining algorithms. The results of the system tested in real environments show that considering the learner’s preferences increases learning quality and satisfies the learner.


Author(s):  
Giuliano Armano ◽  
Alessandro Giuliani ◽  
Eloisa Vargiu

Information Filtering deals with the problem of selecting relevant information for a given user, according to her/his preferences and interests. In this chapter, the authors consider two ways of performing information filtering: recommendation and contextual advertising. In particular, they study and analyze them according to a unified view. In fact, the task of suggesting an advertisement to a Web page can be viewed as the task of recommending an item (the advertisement) to a user (the Web page), and vice versa. Starting from this insight, the authors propose a content-based recommender system based on a generic solution for contextual advertising and a hybrid contextual advertising system based on a generic hybrid recommender system. Relevant case studies have been considered (i.e., a photo recommender and a Web advertiser) with the goal of highlighting how the proposed approach works in practice. In both cases, results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed solutions.


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