A hybrid online-product recommendation system: Combining implicit rating-based collaborative filtering and sequential pattern analysis

  • Authors:
  • Keunho Choi;Donghee Yoo;Gunwoo Kim;Yongmoo Suh

  • Affiliations:
  • Business School, Korea University, Anam-Dong 5-Ga, Seongbuk-Gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea;Department of Electronics Engineering & Information Science, Korea Military Academy, Gongneung 2-Dong, Nowon-Gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea;College of Business & Economics, Hanbat National University, San 16-1, Duckmyoung-Dong, Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea;Business School, Korea University, Anam-Dong 5-Ga, Seongbuk-Gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Many online shopping malls in which explicit rating information is not available still have difficulty in providing recommendation services using collaborative filtering (CF) techniques for their users. Applying temporal purchase patterns derived from sequential pattern analysis (SPA) for recommendation services also often makes users unhappy with the inaccurate and biased results obtained by not considering individual preferences. The objective of this research is twofold. One is to derive implicit ratings so that CF can be applied to online transaction data even when no explicit rating information is available, and the other is to integrate CF and SPA for improving recommendation quality. Based on the results of several experiments that we conducted to compare the performance between ours and others, we contend that implicit rating can successfully replace explicit rating in CF and that the hybrid approach of CF and SPA is better than the individual ones.