One of the main problems of collaborative filtering recommenders is the sparsity of the ratings in the users-items matrix, and its negative effect on the prediction accuracy. This ...
A ranking approach, ListRank-MF, is proposed for collaborative filtering that combines a list-wise learning-to-rank algorithm with matrix factorization (MF). A ranked list of item...
Collaborative filtering and content-based filtering are two types of information filtering techniques. Combining these two techniques can improve the recommendation effectiveness....
Current recommender systems, based on collaborative filtering, implement a rather limited model of interaction. These systems intelligently elicit information from a user only dur...
Web-based applications with a large variety of users suffer from the inability to satisfy heterogeneous needs. A remedy for the negative effects of the traditional "one-size-...
Paolo Buono, Maria Francesca Costabile, Stefano Gu...