Abstract

Matrix Factorization techniques have been successfully applied to raise the quality of suggestions generated by Collaborative Filtering Systems (CFSs). Traditional CFSs based on Matrix Factorization operate on the ratings provided by users and have been recently extended to incorporate demographic aspects such as age and gender. In this paper we propose to merge CFS based on Matrix Factorization and information regarding social friendships in order to provide users with more accurate suggestions and rankings on items of their interest. The proposed approach has been evaluated on a real-life online social network; the experimental results show an improvement against existing CFSs. A detailed comparison with related literature is also present.

Date

2011

Authors

Pasquale De Meo, Emilio Ferrara, Giacomo Fiumara, Alessandro Provetti

Conference

ISDA '11: 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications

Pages

587-592

Publisher

IEEE