A Collaborative Filtering Algorithm with Phased Forecast

  • Authors:
  • Jingyu Sun;Jiguang Zhao;Xueli Yu

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Computer and Software, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China 030024;College of Computer and Software, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China 030024;College of Computer and Software, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China 030024

  • Venue:
  • RSKT '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms predict interests of an active user in order to deal with the overload of information. Usually, changes of her interests have been ignored in traditional algorithms, which take user's interest as static data and product rating in different phase with same weight. So when users' interests have changed as time goes on, unneeded items may be recommended. In order to solve above problem, we propose a new item-based collaborative filtering algorithm in this paper. In this algorithm, named PFCF, we firstly divide users' rating history into several periods, then users' interests distributing in these periods are analyzed by a phrased forecast method, which is used to find user's different type interests. The proposed algorithm is strictly tested on the MovieLens data set. The experimental results show its good precision against other traditional item-based collaborative filtering algorithms.