Similarity calculation for recommender systems


Abstract in English

Recommender systems represents a class of systems designed to help individuals deal with information overload or incomplete information. Such systems help individuals by providing recommendation through the use of various personalization techniques. Collaborative filtering is a widely used technique for rating prediction in recommender systems. This paper presents a method uses preference relations instead of absolute ratings for similarity calculation. The result indicates that the proposed method outperform the other methods such as the Somers Coefficient.

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