A Contextual Item-Based Collaborative Filtering Technology

Xueqing Tan, Pan Pan

School of Information Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.

DOI: 10.4236/iim.2012.43013                

Abstract

This paper proposes a contextual item-based collaborative filtering technology, which is based on the traditional item-based collaborative filtering technology. In the process of the recommendation, user’s important mobile contextual information are taken into account, and the technology combines with those ratings on the items in the users’ historical contextual information who are familiar with user’s current context information in order to predict that which items will be preferred by user in his or her current context. At the end, an experiment is used to prove that the technology proposed in this paper can predict user’s preference in his or her mobile environment more accurately.

Keywords

Context; Item-Based; Collaborative Filtering

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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