Nearest neighbour based social recommendation using heat diffusion

  • Authors:
  • Jithin Justin;A. S. Ajeena Beegom

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Engineering Trivandrum, Kerala, India;College of Engineering Trivandrum, Kerala, India

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 6th ACM India Computing Convention
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Growth of the internet has lead to information overload. Recommender systems filter this vast amount of information and outputs useful information. They are traditionally based on users rating of items. But those systems were not useful for coldstart users i.e. users who have made very few purchases. So social recommenders began to evolve which makes use of social networks to improve recommendations. In this paper we propose a nearest neighbour based top N recommendation technique using social network. We model the data sources as graph and use heat diffusion process for generating recommendations. The experimental evaluation on the epinions dataset shows that our approach outperforms the approach that combines user based collaborative filtering approach and trust based approach.