Title
Natural Noise Management in Recommender Systems Using Fuzzy Tools
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
book part
Author(s)
University of Ciego de Ávila
Publisher(s)
Springer Verlag
Abstract
Recommender Systems (RSs) are tools focused on suggesting items that match the interests and preferences of a target user. They have been used in several domains such as e-commerce, e-learning, and social networks. These systems require the elicitation of user preferences, which are not always precise because there are external factors such as human errors, or the inherent vagueness associated to human beings; which are usually related to user behaviors. In RSs, such imperfect behaviors are identified as natural noise (NN), and can bias negatively the recommendation, which affects the RS performance. The current chapter presents two fuzzy models for NN management in a flexible way, which guarantees robust modeling of the uncertainty associated to the user profiles. These models are conceived for individual and group recommendation scenarios respectively, as a data preprocessing step before the recommendation generation. Two case studies are developed to show that the proposals lead to improvements in the accuracy of individual and group recommender systems.
Start page
1
End page
24
Volume
837
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85069775062
Resource of which it is part
Studies in Computational Intelligence
ISSN of the container
1860949X
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