Proposing a New Metric for Collaborative Filtering

Arash Bahrehmand, Reza Rafeh
2011 Journal of Software Engineering and Applications  
The aim of a recommender system is filtering the enormous quantity of information to obtain useful information based on the user's interest. Collaborative filtering is a technique which improves the efficiency of recommendation systems by considering the similarity between users. The similarity is based on the given rating to data by similar users. However, user's interest may change over time. In this paper we propose an adaptive metric which considers the time in measuring the similarity of
more » ... ers. The experimental results show that our approach is more accurate than the traditional collaborative filtering algorithm.
doi:10.4236/jsea.2011.47047 fatcat:rj6w5xfn7jdand7sivtnzz7vxi