Using community preference for overcoming sparsity and cold-start problems in collaborative filtering system offering soft ratings

• Main Authors: Van Doan Nguyen, Songsak Sriboonchitta, Van Nam Huynh
• Format: Journal
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Business, Management and Accounting; Computer Science
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85032000382&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/56854
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. This paper introduces a new collaborative filtering recommender system that is capable of offering soft ratings as well as integrating with a social network containing all users. Offering soft ratings is known as a new methodology for modeling subjective, qualitative, and imperf...