Personalizing the product recommendation task is a major focus of research in the area of conversational recommender systems. Conversational case-based recommender systems help use...
Significant vulnerabilities have recently been identified in collaborative filtering recommender systems. Researchers have shown that attackers can manipulate a system’s reco...
Robin D. Burke, Bamshad Mobasher, Runa Bhaumik, Ch...
An ant deposits pheromone along the path that it travels and is more likely to choose a path with a higher concentration of pheromone. The sensing and dropping of pheromone makes ...
Sameena Shah, Ravi Kothari, Jayadeva, Suresh Chand...
The open nature of collaborative recommender systems present a security problem. Attackers that cannot be readily distinguished from ordinary users may inject biased profiles, deg...
In this paper, we investigate how deviation in evaluation activities may reveal bias on the part of reviewers and controversy on the part of evaluated objects. We focus on a `data...