Improved Recommendations Based on Trust Relationships in Social Networks
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Related Work
3. Factors in Trust Relationships
3.1. Definition of Trust
3.2. Dynamic Update of Trust
3.3. Similarity of Users
4. A Recommendation Algorithm Based on Trust Relationships
Input: target user ua, the set of users U, the set of items I and the rating matrix R |
Output: predicted ratings Ea for ua |
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5. Experiment and Analysis
5.1. Experimental Setup
5.2. Results and Analysis
6. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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