Random group recommendation model based on fuzzy clustering

Abstract

The group recommendation system is a viral requirement for the Internet service provider to provide recommendation services for all the users in a group. Due to the shared or different interests among users in the group, it is difficult for traditional personal recommendation algorithms to predict items that can meet the requirements of all the users in the group. In this paper, a random group recommendation model is proposed to recommend the top K most appealing items for all the users in a random group. By analyzing item ratings of all the users in the group, the recommendation model can abstract the group as a virtual user. Then a personal recommendation algorithm is applied to suggest the top K most appealing items for the virtual user. And the preference score and fuzzy clustering algorithm based on multiclass are applied to optimize the recommendation result of the group recommendation model. Finally, the MovieLens-100K dataset is applied to verify the efficiency of the recommendation model. The experimental results show that the items recommended by the proposed group recommendation model are more popular for all the users in the group than the items recommended by traditional group recommendation algorithms.