Recommender system based on Hierarchical Clustering algorithm Chameleon

Abstract

Recommender Systems are becoming inherent part of today's e-commerce applications. Since recommender system has a direct impact on the sales of many products therefore Recommender system plays an important role in e-commerce. Collaborative filtering is the oldest techniques used in the recommender system. A lot of work has been done towards the improvement of collaborative filtering which comprises of two components User Based and Item Based. The basic necessity of today's recommender system is accuracy and speed. In this work an efficient technique for recommender system based on Hierarchical Clustering is proposed. The user or item specific information is grouped into a set of clusters using Chameleon Hierarchical clustering algorithm. Further voting system is used to predict the rating of a particular item. In order to evaluate the performance of Chameleon based recommender system, it is compared with existing technique based on K-means clustering algorithm. The results demonstrates that Chameleon based Recommender system produces less error as compared to K-means based Recommender System.