Title
An empirical study of natural noise management in group recommendation systems
Date Issued
01 February 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Castro J.
Martínez L.
University of Ciego de Ávila
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Group recommender systems (GRSs) filter relevant items to groups of users in overloaded search spaces using information about their preferences. When the feedback is explicitly given by the users, inconsistencies may be introduced due to various factors, known as natural noise. Previous research on individual recommendation has demonstrated that natural noise negatively influences the recommendation accuracy, whilst it improves when noise is managed. GRSs also employ explicit ratings given by several users as ground truth, hence the recommendation process is also affected by natural noise. However, the natural noise problem has not been addressed on GRSs. The aim of this paper is to develop and test a model to diminish its negative effect in GRSs. A case study will evaluate the results of different approaches, showing that managing the natural noise at different rating levels reduces prediction error. Eventually, the deployment of a GRS with natural noise management is analysed.
Start page
1
End page
11
Volume
94
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85001720294
Source
Decision Support Systems
ISSN of the container
01679236
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