A survey of collaborative filtering techniques
Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Improving the effectiveness of collaborative recommendation with ontology-based user profiles
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems
A hybrid fuzzy-based personalized recommender system for telecom products/services
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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Collaborative filtering (CF) is one of the most successful approaches for recommendation. In this paper, we propose two hybrid CF algorithms, sequential mixture CF and joint mixture CF, each combining advice from multiple experts for effective recommendation. These proposed hybrid CF models work particularly well in the common situation when data are very sparse. By combining multiple experts to form a mixture CF, our systems are able to cope with sparse data to obtain satisfactory performance. Empirical studies show that our algorithms outperform their peers, such as memory-based, pure model-based, pure content-based CF algorithms, and the contentboosted CF (a representative hybrid CF algorithm), especially when the underlying data are very sparse.