Exploiting Past Users’ Interests and Predictions in an Active Learning Method for Dealing with Cold Start in Recommender Systems

This paper focuses on the new users cold-start issue in the context of recommender systems. New users who do not receive pertinent recommendations may abandon the system. In order to cope with this issue, we use active learning techniques. These methods engage the new users to interact with the syst...

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Main Authors: Manuel Pozo, Raja Chiky, Farid Meziane, Elisabeth Métais
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-08-01
Series:Informatics
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2227-9709/5/3/35