Implicit and explicit trust in collaborative filtering

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Abstract

Recommender Systems based on collaborative filtering could provide users with accurate recommendation. However, sometimes due to data sparsity and cold start of the input ratings matrix, this method could not find similar users accurately. In the past, researchers used implicit trust weight instead of the similarity weight to find similar users, to improve the quality of recommendation [17]. And they often ignore the role of explicit trust in the process of finding similar users. Therefore, in this paper, we explore the calculation of implicit trust and explicit trust. Then according to their role in the recommendation system, we propose a method that combined trust and similarity to get a better recommendation. At last, by experimenting on FilmTrust [5] data set which has the explicit trust matrix, the result showed that the method we proposed significantly improve the quality of recommendation, in addition, implicit trust and explicit trust have a positive effect on the quality of the results of recommendation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationKnowledge Science, Engineering and Management - 9th International Conference, KSEM 2016, Proceedings
EditorsFranz Lehner, Nora Fteimi
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages489-500
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783319476490
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event9th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2016 - Passau, Germany
Duration: 5 Oct 20167 Oct 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9983 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2016
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityPassau
Period5/10/167/10/16

Keywords

  • Collaborative filtering
  • Explicit trust
  • Implicit trust
  • Recommender system

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