Title
A fuzzy model for managing natural noise in recommender systems
Date Issued
01 March 2016
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Castro J.
Martínez L.
University of Ciego de Ávila
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd.
Abstract
E-commerce customers demand quick and easy access to products in large search spaces according to their needs and preferences. To support and facilitate this process, recommender systems (RS) based on user preferences have recently played a key role. However the elicitation of customers preferences is not always precise either correct, because of external factors such as human errors, uncertainty and vagueness proper of human beings and so on. Such a problem in RS is known as natural noise and can bias customers recommendations. Despite different proposals have been presented to deal with natural noise in RS none of them is able to manage properly the inherent uncertainty and vagueness of customers preferences. Hence, this paper is devoted to a new fuzzy method for managing in a flexible and adaptable way such uncertainty of natural noise in order to improve recommendation accuracy. Eventually a case study is performed to show the improvements produced by this fuzzy method regarding previous proposals.
Start page
187
End page
198
Volume
40
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84950122489
Source
Applied Soft Computing Journal
ISSN of the container
15684946
Sponsor(s)
This research work was partially supported by the Research Project TIN-2012-31263, the Eureka SD Project (agreement number 2013-2591 ), which is supported by the Erasmus Mundus Programme of the European Union , and also the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport FPU fellowship ( FPU13/01151 ).
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