Title : 
CF Improvement Based on Probabilistic Analysis of Discrete Explicit Rating Vector
         
        
            Author : 
Tian Wei ; Xu Jing ; Pend Yu-Qing
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Coll. of Inf. Tech. Sci., NanKai Univ., Tianjin, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Collaborative Filter (CF) is one of the important algorithms of Recommendation System, the sparsity problem is a significant impediment for real use of CF technique. In this paper, based on probabilistic analysis to users´ discrete explicit rating vector, an All-Average improved algorithm are proposed to solve the problem of CF sparsity and other practical problems. Experimental result show this method improved the precision and quality of CF prediction.
         
        
            Keywords : 
electronic commerce; groupware; probability; recommender systems; all-average improved algorithm; collaborative filter; discrete explicit rating vector; e-commerce; probabilistic analysis; recommendation system; sparsity problem; Algorithm design and analysis; Computer industry; Educational institutions; Filters; Impedance; Information analysis; Information science; Software; Variable structure systems; Vectors;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Information Science and Engineering (ICISE), 2009 1st International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Nanjing
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-4909-5
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICISE.2009.384