Improving Prediction Quality in Collaborative Filtering Based on Clustering

  • Authors:
  • Taek-Hun Kim;Seok-In Park;Sung-Bong Yang

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • WI-IAT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper we present the recommender systems that use the k-means clustering method in order to solve the problems associated with neighbor selection. The first method is to solve the problem in which customers belong to different clusters due to the distance-based characteristics despite the fact that they are similar customers, by properly converting data before performing clustering. The second method explains the k-prototype algorithm performing clustering by expanding not only the numeric data but also the categorical data. The experimental results show that better prediction quality can be obtained when both methods are used together.