Improving Precision of Recommender Systems using Time-, Location- and Context-aware Trust Estimation Based on Clustering and Beta Distribution
Subject Areas : electrical and computer engineeringSamaneh Sheibani 1 , Hassan Shakeri 2 , Reza Sheybani 3
1 - Department of Computer Engineering, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
2 - Department of Computer Engineering, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
3 - Mashhad branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, IRAN
Keywords: Recommender systems, Trust, Beta Distribution, Clustering, context-aware recommendation,
Abstract :
Calculation and applying trust among users has become popular in designing recommender systems in recent years. However, most of the trust-based recommender systems use only one factor for estimating the value of trust. In this paper, a multi-factor approach for estimating trust among users of recommender systems is introduced. In the proposed scheme, first, users of the system are clustered based on their similarities in demographics information and history of ratings. To predict the rating of the active user into a specific item, the value of trust between him and the other users in his cluster is calculated considering the factors i.e. time, location, and context of their rating. To this end, we propose an algorithm based on beta distribution. A novel tree-based measure for computing the semantic similarity between the contexts is utilized. Finally, the rating of the active user is predicted using weighted averaging where trust values are considered as weights. The proposed scheme was performed on three datasets, and the obtained results indicated that it outperforms existing methods in terms of accuracy and other efficiency metrics.
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