A Context Features Selecting and Weighting Methods for Context-Aware Recommendation

Saloua Zammali, Khedija Arour, Amel Bouzeghoub

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Abstract

The notion of 'Context' plays a key role in recommender systems. In this respect, many researches have been dedicated for Context-Aware Recommender Systems (CARS). Rating prediction in CARS is being tackled by researchers attempting to recommend appropriate items to users. However, in rating prediction, three thriving challenges still to tackle:(i) context feature's selection, (ii) context feature's weighting, and (iii) users context matching. Context-aware algorithms made a strong assumption that context features are selected in advance and their weights are the same or initialized with random values. After context features weighting, users context matching is required. In current approaches, syntactic measures are used which require an exact matching between features. To address these issues, we propose a novel approach for Selecting and Weighting Context Features (SWCF). The evaluation experiments show that the proposed approach is helpful to improve the recommendation quality.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2015 IEEE 39th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2015
EditorsGang Huang, Jingwei Yang, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Pao-Ann Hsiung, Carl K. Chang, William Chu, Ivica Crnkovic
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages575-584
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781467365635
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Sept 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event39th IEEE Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2015 - Taichung, Taiwan, Province of China
Duration: 1 Jul 20155 Jul 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference
Volume2
ISSN (Print)0730-3157

Conference

Conference39th IEEE Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2015
Country/TerritoryTaiwan, Province of China
CityTaichung
Period1/07/155/07/15

Keywords

  • Context-aware recommendation
  • Features selection
  • Features weighting

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