Proposed Recommender System Research Articles

A Multi-Criteria Collaborative Filtering Approach Using Deep Learning and Dempster-Shafer Theory for Hotel Recommendations

This paper addresses the problem of multi-criteria recommendation in the hotel industry. The main focus is to analyze user preferences from different aspects based on multi-criteria ratings and develop a new multi-criteria collaborative filtering method for hotel recommendations. Particularly, the proposed recommendation system integrates matrix factorization into a deep learning model to predict the multi-criteria ratings, and then the evidential reasoning approach is adopted to model the uncertainty of those ratings represented as mass functions in Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence. Finally, Dempster’s rule of combination is utilized to aggregate those multi-criteria ratings to obtain the overall rating for recommendation. Extensive experiments conducted on a real-world dataset demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method compared with other multi-criteria collaborative filtering methods.

Book Recommendation System Using Machine Learning

Abstract: Users can use book recommendation systems to search and select books from a number of options available on the web or elsewhere electronic sources. They give the user a little bit selection of products that fit the description, given a large group of objects and a description of the user needs. Our system will simply provide recommendations. Recommendations are based on previous user activity, such as purchase, habits, reviews, and likes. These systems gain lot of interest. In the proposed system, we have a big problem: when the user buys book, we want to recommend some books that the user can enjoy. Buyers also have a great deal of options when it comes to recommending the best and most appropriate books for them. User development privacy while placing small and minor losses of accuracy. Recommendations. The proposed recommendation system will provide user's ability to view and search the publications and using the Support Vector Machine (SVM), will list the most purchased and top rated books based on the subject name given as input. Keywords: Recommender System, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Machine Learning, Classification etc.

ALGORITHMIC SUPPORT OF THE WEB SERVICE RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM FOR LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGES

This work is devoted to the analysis of algorithmic support of multimedia content recommender systems and the development of a web service toincrease the efficiency of learning foreign languages using a recommender system that personalized the selection of educational content for the user.To form a list of necessary multimedia content, the main criteria of the recommender system were selected, the basic needs of users were identified,which the system should solve, since increasing the efficiency of learning a foreign language is achieved not only by choosing teaching methods, butalso by watching multimedia content, namely news, films, educational videos, clips, etc. Therefore, in order to form a list of the necessary multimediacontent, the main criteria of the recommender system were formed, the main needs of users were identified, which the system must solve. From theside of the method for implementing algorithmic support, various types of data filtering were considered, from modern technical methods to librariesto ensure the functionality of the system, and the algorithm based on hybrid filtering was chosen, in which known user ratings are used to predict thepreferences of another user. Functional requirements have been developed and a web service has been proposed that allows a comprehensive impact onuser learning when learning a foreign language, software implementation of which is made using Java Script, Python and additional libraries. Thisimplementation allows you to build a process for tracking changes in user requirements and transfer information to the database (DB) and, afteranalyzing the input data, change the proposed multimedia content to the user. In the course of further research, it is planned to conduct practicalexperiments, taking into account the specifics of certain methods of teaching foreign languages and the use of statistical data to assess the effectivenessof the algorithm of the proposed recommender system.

Dynamic Educational Recommender System Based on Improved Recurrent Neural Networks Using Attention Technique

ABSTRACT Most web-based educational systems contain some drawbacks, as compared to traditional classrooms. Particularly, it becomes difficult for teachers to guide students to choose an appropriate learning resource due to the large number of online learning resources. Meanwhile, student decisions make it more difficult to choose educational resources according to their circumstances. In this matter, the resource recommender system can be employed as an educational environment to recommend the educational resource advice for students, so that these recommendations can be coordinated to each student’s preferences and needs. This paper presents the resource recommender system as a combination of MLP, BiLSTM, and LSTM improved deep learning networks using the attention method. Compared to similar studies conducted using DBN networks and focus only on the near past interests and preferences of users, the proposed system provides higher accuracy and more appropriate recommendations considering current interests, in addition to the user’s long-term past interests. The proposed recommender system with accuracy of 0.96 and a loss of 0.0822 contains a better performance to recommend resources to students compared to other methods.

A fuzzy approach to review-based recommendation: Design and optimization of a fuzzy classification scheme based on implicit features of textual reviews

In the design of recommender systems, it is believed that the set of reviews written by a user can somehow reveal his/her interests, and the content of an item can also be implied from its corresponding reviews. The present study attempts to model both the users and the items via extracting key information from the existing textual reviews. Based on this information, a fuzzy rule-based classifier is designed and tuned, which aims to predict whether a typical user will be interested in a typical item or not. For this purpose, the set of all reviews belonging to a user are mapped to a vector representing the user's interests. Similarly, the set of reviews written by different users over an item are merged and mapped to a vector representing the item. By conjoining these two vectors, a longer vector is obtained which will be used as the input of the classifier. To optimize the classifier, an adaptive approach is suggested and rule-weight learning is carried out, accordingly. The performance of the proposed fuzzy recommender system was evaluated on the Amazon dataset. Experimental results narrate from the promising classification ability of the proposed recommender system compared to state of the art.

Context-Induced Activity Monitoring for On-Demand Things-of-Interest Recommendation in an Ambient Intelligent Environment

Recommendation systems are crucial in the provision of services to the elderly with Alzheimer’s disease in IoT-based smart home environments. In this work, a Reminder Care System (RCS) is presented to help Alzheimer patients live in and operate their homes safely and independently. A contextual bandit approach is utilized in the formulation of the proposed recommendation system to tackle dynamicity in human activities and to construct accurate recommendations that meet user needs without their feedback. The system was evaluated based on three public datasets using a cumulative reward as a metric. Our experimental results demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed Reminder Care System for real-world IoT-based smart home applications.

A two-stage location-sensitive and user preference-aware recommendation system

Nowadays, cloud customers use cloud services increasingly to satisfy their demands. Usually, a significant number of customers are immature and inexpert and cannot express their needs accurately and numerically. They usually express their needs verbally and in the form of linguistic terms. On the other hand, the experienced customers express their needs numerically and accurately. In this situation, a recommendation system can be considered as one of the most useful ideas to support all type of customers. However, current recommendation systems (e.g., collaborative filtering based recommendations) meet customer requests that are accurately and numerically expressed. To support all types of customers, the construction of a strong recommendation system to analysis the demands expressed by customers (experienced and inexperienced) and to recommend suitable services is vital. As another important matter, cloud customers and services have been geographically distributed. Identifying the location of customers and services has a significant effect on the quality of services offered to customers. Therefore, the recommendation system should consider the location of customers and services in order to provide better services. In this paper, we introduce an efficient method to construct a powerful recommendation system which can provide suitable services considering the preferences of the customer and their location. The proposed recommendation system comprises two algorithms. The first algorithm is a fuzzy clustering algorithm, named FCA, that can well classify the location of customers and services. The second algorithm is an iterative adaptive neural-fuzzy algorithm, named IANFRA, which receives the preferences of the customer along with their location and identifies suitable services based on the locations clustered by FCA and the demands of customers (experienced and inexperienced). Finally, the feasibility of the proposed method has validated in terms of accuracy and scalability through conducting extensive experiments on a real distributed service quality dataset WS-DREAM. The evaluation results illustrate that both the service recommendation accuracy in the prediction of quality of services and the scalability, when the volume of the dataset is huge, have been improved.

Machine Learning Techniques for Enhancing Student Learning Experiences

Outcome-based learning (OBL) is a tried-and-true learning technique based on a set of predetermined objectives. Program Educational Objectives (PEOs), Program Outcomes (POs), and Course Outcomes are the three components of OBL (COs). Faculty members may adopt many ML-based advised actions at the conclusion of each course to improve the quality of learning and, as a result, the overall education. Due to the huge number of courses and faculty members involved, harmful behaviors may be advocated, resulting in unwanted and incorrect choices. The education system is described in this study based on college course requirements, academic records, and course learning results evaluations is provided for anticipating appropriate actions utilizing various machine learning algorithms. Dataset translates to different problem conversion methods and adaptive methods such as one-versus-all, binary significance, naming power set, series classification and custom classification ML-KNN. The suggested recommender ML-based system is used as a case study at the Institute of Computer and Information Sciences to assist academic staff in boosting learning quality and instructional methodologies. The results suggest that the proposed recommendation system offers more measures to improve students' learning experiences.

A Hybrid Recommender System for HCI Design Pattern Recommendations

User interface design patterns are acknowledged as a standard solution to recurring design problems. The heterogeneity of existing design patterns makes the selection of relevant ones difficult. To tackle these concerns, the current work contributes in a twofold manner. The first contribution is the development of a recommender system for selecting the most relevant design patterns in the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) domain. This system introduces a hybrid approach that combines text-based and ontology-based techniques and is aimed at using semantic similarity along with ontology models to retrieve appropriate HCI design patterns. The second contribution addresses the validation of the proposed recommender system regarding the acceptance intention towards our system by assessing the perceived experience and the perceived accuracy. To this purpose, we conducted a user-centric evaluation experiment wherein participants were invited to fill pre-study and post-test questionnaires. The findings of the evaluation study revealed that the perceived experience of the proposed system’s quality and the accuracy of the recommended design patterns were assessed positively.

The Teaching Pattern of Law Majors Using Artificial Intelligence and Deep Neural Network Under Educational Psychology.

With the increasing attention to the cultivation of legal talents, a new teaching model has been explored through artificial intelligence (AI) technology under educational psychology, which focuses on improving learning initiative, teaching methods, and teaching quality of students. First, the application of AI and deep neural network (DNN) algorithms are reviewed in education, and the advantages and disadvantages of traditional learning material recommendation algorithms are summarized. Then, a personalized learning material recommendation algorithm is put forward based on DNN, together with an adaptive learning system based on DNN. Finally, the traditional user-based collaborative filtering (UserCF) model and lifelong topic modeling (LTM) algorithm are introduced as the control group to verify the performance of the proposed recommendation system. The results show that the best learning rate of model training is 0.0001, the best dropout value is 0.5, and the best batch size is 32. The proposed personalized learning resource recommendation method based on deep learning (DL) still has good stability under various training data scales. The personalized test questions of recommended students are moderately difficult. It is easier to recommend materials according to the acquisition of knowledge points and the practicability of the recommended test questions of students. Personalized learning material recommendation algorithm based on AI can timely feedback needs of students, thereby improving the effect of classroom teaching. Using the combination of AI and DL algorithms in teaching design, students can complete targeted personalized learning assignments, which is of great significance to cultivate high-level legal professionals.

Simulation-based algorithm for determining best package delivery alternatives under three criteria: Time, cost and sustainability

With the significant rise in demand for same-day instant deliveries, several courier services are exploring alternatives to transport packages in a cost- and time-effective, as well as, sustainable manner. Motivated by a real-life case study, this paper focuses on developing a simulation algorithm that assists same-day package delivery companies to serve customers instantly. The proposed recommender system provides the best solution with respect to three criteria: cost, time, and sustainability, considering the variation in travel time and cost parameters. The decision support tool provides recommendations on the best alternative for transporting products based on factors, such as source and destination locations, time of the day, package weight, and volume. Besides considering existing new technologies like electric-assisted cargo bikes, we also analyze the impact of emerging methods of deliveries, such as robots and air taxis. Finally, this paper also considers the best delivery alternative during the presence of a pandemic, such as COVID-19. For the purpose of illustrating our approach, we consider the delivery options in New York City. We believe that the proposed tool is the first to provide solutions to courier companies considering evolving modes of transportation and under logistics disruptions due to pandemic.

Smart fusion of sensor data and human feedback for personalized energy-saving recommendations

Despite the variety of sensors that can be used in a smart home or office setup, for monitoring energy consumption and assisting users to save energy, their usefulness is limited when they are not properly integrated into the daily activities of humans. Energy-saving applications in such environments can benefit from the use of sensors and actuators when data are properly fused with previous knowledge about user habits and feedback about current user preferences. In this article, we present an online recommender system implemented in the EM3 platform, a platform for Consumer Engagement Toward Energy-Saving Behavior. The recommender system uniquely fuses sensors’ data with user habits and user feedback and provides personalized recommendations for energy efficiency at the right moment. The user response to the recommendations directly triggers actuators that perform energy-saving actions and is recorded and processed for refining future recommendations. The EM3 recommendation engine continuously evaluates the three inputs (i.e. sensor data, user habits, user feedback) and identifies the micro-moments that maximize the need for the recommended action and thus the recommendation acceptance. We evaluate the efficiency of the proposed recommender system, which is based on a stacked-LSTM for fusing multi-sensor data streams, in several scenarios, and the observed accuracy on predicting the right moment to send a recommendation to the user ranged from 93% to 97%.

Hybrid Collaborative Fusion Based Product Recommendation Exploiting Sentiments from Implicit and Explicit Reviews

Product recommendation is an important functionality in online ecommerce systems. The goal of the recommendation system is to recommend products with has higher purchase success ratio. User profile, product purchase history etc. have been used in many works to provide high quality recommendations. Product reviews is one of the important source for personalized recommendation. Typical collaborative recommendation systems are built upon user rating on products. But in many cases, these rating information are inaccurate or not available. There is also a problem of biased reviews decreasing the accuracy of recommendation systems. This work proposes a aspect mining collaborative fusion based recommendation system considering both the implicit and explicit reviews. The sentiments about different aspects mined from reviews are translated to multi-dimensional ratings. These ratings are then fused with user profile and demographic attributes to improve the quality of recommendation. The proposed recommendation system has 3.79% lower RMSE, 4.51% lower MAE and 22% lower MRE compared to most recent collaborative filtering based recommendation system.

The architecture design of information intelligent recommendation system for mobile communication terminal

In order to effectively generate product recommendation information for specific users and push it to all kinds of mobile terminal systems, combined with the application environment of recommendation system in e-commerce, the overall architecture of information recommendation system for mobile terminal is given, and the recommendation engine structure with multi engine strategy is designed and analyzed, Processing flow and two kinds of information push schemes for mobile terminals: user-defined recommendation technology and third-party recommendation platform. The proposed recommender system architecture has clear division, strong scalability and easy expansion, and has achieved good results in practical application.

Hybrid high-order semantic graph representation learning for recommendations

The amount of Internet data is increasing day by day with the rapid development of information technology. To process massive amounts of data and solve information overload, researchers proposed recommender systems. Traditional recommendation methods are mainly based on collaborative filtering algorithms, which have data sparsity problems. At present, most model-based collaborative filtering recommendation algorithms can only capture first-order semantic information and cannot process high-order semantic information. To solve the above issues, in this paper, we propose a hybrid graph neural network model based on heterogeneous graphs with high-order semantic information extraction, which models users and items respectively by learning low-dimensional representations for them. We introduced an attention mechanism to allow the model to understand the corresponding edge weights adaptively. Simultaneously, the model also integrates social information in the data to learn more abundant information. We performed some experiments on related datasets. Our method achieved better results than some current advanced models, which verified the proposed model’s effectiveness.

Restaurant Recommendation in Vehicle Context Based on Prediction of Traffic Conditions

Restaurant recommendation is one of the most recommendation problems because the result of recommendation varies in different environments. Many methods have been proposed to recommend restaurants in a mobile environment by considering user preference, restaurant attributes, and location. However, there are few restaurant recommender systems according to the internet of vehicles environment. This paper presents a recommender system based on the prediction of traffic conditions in the internet of vehicles environment. This recommender system uses a phased selection method to recommend restaurants. The first stage is to screen restaurants that are on the user’s driving route; the second stage is to recommend restaurants from the user attributes, restaurant attributes (with traffic conditions), and vehicle context, using a deep learning model. The experimental evaluation shows that the proposed recommender system is both efficient and effective.

Interpretable video tag recommendation with multimedia deep learning framework

PurposeTags help promote customer engagement on video-sharing platforms. Video tag recommender systems are artificial intelligence-enabled frameworks that strive for recommending precise tags for videos. Extant video tag recommender systems are uninterpretable, which leads to distrust of the recommendation outcome, hesitation in tag adoption and difficulty in the system debugging process. This study aims at constructing an interpretable and novel video tag recommender system to assist video-sharing platform users in tagging their newly uploaded videos.Design/methodology/approachThe proposed interpretable video tag recommender system is a multimedia deep learning framework composed of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which receives texts and images as inputs. The interpretability of the proposed system is realized through layer-wise relevance propagation.FindingsThe case study and user study demonstrate that the proposed interpretable multimedia CNN model could effectively explain its recommended tag to users by highlighting keywords and key patches that contribute the most to the recommended tag. Moreover, the proposed model achieves an improved recommendation performance by outperforming state-of-the-art models.Practical implicationsThe interpretability of the proposed recommender system makes its decision process more transparent, builds users’ trust in the recommender systems and prompts users to adopt the recommended tags. Through labeling videos with human-understandable and accurate tags, the exposure of videos to their target audiences would increase, which enhances information technology (IT) adoption, customer engagement, value co-creation and precision marketing on the video-sharing platform.Originality/valueThe proposed model is not only the first explainable video tag recommender system but also the first explainable multimedia tag recommender system to the best of our knowledge.

A BERT-Based Multi-Criteria Recommender System for Hotel Promotion Management

Numerous reviews are posted every day on travel information sharing platforms and sites. Hotels want to develop a customer recommender system to quickly and effectively identify potential target customers. TripAdvisor, the travel website that provided the data used in this study, allows customers to rate the hotel based on six criteria: Value, Service, Location, Room, Cleanliness, and Sleep Quality. Existing studies classify reviews into positive, negative, and neutral by extracting sentiment terms through simple sentimental analysis. However, this method has limitations in that it does not consider various aspects of hotels well. Therefore, this study performs fine-tuning the BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) model using review data with rating labels on the TripAdvisor site. This study suggests a multi-criteria recommender system to recommend a suitable target customers for the hotel. As the rating values of six criteria of TripAdvisor are insufficient, the proposed recommender system uses fine-tuned BERT to predict six criteria ratings. Based on this predicted ratings, a multi-criteria recommender system recommends personalized Top-N customers for each hotel. The performance of the multi-criteria recommender system suggested in this study is better than that of the benchmark system, a single-criteria recommender system using overall ratings.

PNTRS

A news recommendation system not only must recommend the latest, trending, and personalized news to the users but also give opportunity to know about the people's opinion on trending news. Most of the existing news recommendation systems focus on recommending news articles based on user-specific tweets. In contrast to these recommendation systems, the proposed Personalized News and Tweet Recommendation System (PNTRS) recommends tweets based on the recommended article. It firstly generates news recommendation based on user's interest and twitter profile using the Multinomial Naïve Bayes (MNB) classifier. Further, the system uses these recommended articles to recommend various trending tweets using fuzzy inference system. Additionally, feedback-based learning is applied to improve the efficiency of the proposed recommendation system. The user feedback rating is taken to evaluate the satisfaction level, and it is 7.9 on the scale of 10.

Improving patient rehabilitation performance in exercise games using collaborative filtering approach.

BackgroundVirtual reality is utilised in exergames to help patients with disabilities improve on the movement of their limbs. Exergame settings, such as the game difficulty, play important roles in the rehabilitation outcome. Similarly, suboptimal exergames’ settings may adversely affect the accuracy of the results obtained. As such, the improvement in patients’ movement performances falls below the desired expectations. In this paper, a recommender system is incorporated to suggest the most preferred movement setting for each patient, based on the movement history of the patient.MethodThe proposed recommender system (ResComS) suggests the most suitable setting necessary to optimally improve patients’ rehabilitation performances. In the course of developing the recommender system, three methods are proposed and compared: ReComS (K-nearest neighbours and collaborative filtering algorithms), ReComS+ (k-means, K-nearest neighbours, and collaborative filtering algorithms) and ReComS++ (bacterial foraging optimisation, k-means, K-nearest neighbours, and collaborative filtering algorithms). The experimental datasets are collected using the Medical Interactive Recovery Assistant (MIRA) software platform.ResultExperimental results, validated by the patients’ exergame performances, reveal that the ReComS++ approach predicts the best exergame settings for patients with 85.76% accuracy.