dc.contributor.advisor | Shang, Yi, 1967- | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Almosallam, Ibrahim Ahmad | eng |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | eng |
dc.date.submitted | 2008 Spring | eng |
dc.description | The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. | eng |
dc.description | Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on August 22, 2008) | eng |
dc.description | Thesis (M.S.) University of Missouri-Columbia 2008. | eng |
dc.description.abstract | Collaborative filtering is one of the most successful techniques for recommendation systems and has been used in many commercial services provided by major companies including Amazon, TiVo and Netflix. In this project we focus on memory-based collaborative filtering (CF). Existing CF techniques work well on dense data but poorly on sparse data. To address this weakness, we propose to use z-scores instead of explicit ratings and introduce a mechanism that adaptively combines global statistics with item-based values based on data density level. A new adaptive framework that encapsulates various CF algorithms and the relationships among them is presented. An adaptive CF predictor is developed that can self adapt from user-based to item-based to hybrid methods based on the amount of available ratings. The experimental results show that the new predictor consistently obtained more accurate predictions than existing CF methods, with the most significant improvement on sparse data sets. When applied to the Netflix Challenge data set, the method performed better than existing CF and singular value decomposition (SVD) methods and achieved 4.67% improvement over Netflix's system. | eng |
dc.description.bibref | Includes bibliographical references. | eng |
dc.identifier.merlin | b64579578 | eng |
dc.identifier.oclc | 244299859 | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.32469/10355/5630 | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10355/5630 | |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity | University of Missouri--Columbia. Graduate School. Theses and Dissertations | eng |
dc.rights | OpenAccess. | eng |
dc.rights.license | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Computer algorithms | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Data mining | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Information filtering systems | eng |
dc.title | A new adaptive framework for collaborative filtering prediction | eng |
dc.type | Thesis | eng |
thesis.degree.discipline | Computer science (MU) | eng |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
thesis.degree.level | Masters | eng |
thesis.degree.name | M.S. | eng |