Title
Hybrid recommendation methods in complex networks.
Abstract
We propose two recommendation methods, based on the appropriate normalization of already existing similarity measures, and on the convex combination of the recommendation scores derived from similarity between users and between objects. We validate the proposed measures on three data sets, and we compare the performance of our methods to other recommendation systems recently proposed in the literature. We show that the proposed similarity measures allow us to attain an improvement of performances of up to 20% with respect to existing nonparametric methods, and that the accuracy of a recommendation can vary widely from one specific bipartite network to another, which suggests that a careful choice of the most suitable method is highly relevant for an effective recommendation on a given system. Finally, we study how an increasing presence of random links in the network affects the recommendation scores, finding that one of the two recommendation algorithms introduced here can systematically outperform the others in noisy data sets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1103/PhysRevE.92.012811
PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Field
DocType
Volume
Recommender system,Data mining,Noisy data,Data set,Normalization (statistics),Convex combination,Bipartite graph,Nonparametric statistics,Complex network,Physics
Journal
92
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1539-3755
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
8
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
A. Fiasconaro150.93
Michele Tumminello2284.81
V Nicosia358737.41
Vito Latora440.42
Rosario N. Mantegna5344.72