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Advanced Models and Algorithms for Recommender Systems

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2025 | Viewed by 655

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Data Engineering Laboratory, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: artificial intelligence; recommender systems; machine learning; information retrieval; data science; intelligent systems; algorithms; databases; large language models

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

As digital ecosystems grow and diversify, recommender systems have become integral in delivering personalized experiences, enhancing user engagement across sectors like e-commerce, social media, entertainment, and healthcare. With the rapid advancement of AI and data science, there is a growing interest in developing models and algorithms that not only improve recommendation accuracy but also address challenges in scalability, interpretability, user privacy, ethics, cold-start problems, data heterogeneity, and the integration of large language models.

Traditional recommendation approaches, though widely used, face limitations in handling sparse, noisy, and evolving data environments. Recently, advanced techniques in deep learning, graph neural networks, and hybrid collaborative methods have shown promising potential in tackling these challenges by leveraging contextual, sequential, and multi-modal data.

This Special Issue, “Advanced Models and Algorithms for Recommender Systems”, brings together cutting-edge research focused on refining recommender systems through enhanced modeling, innovative algorithms, and practical implementations. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive resource for researchers and practitioners seeking to develop intelligent and reliable recommender systems in increasingly complex digital ecosystems.

Dr. Pavlos Kefalas
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • recommender systems
  • personalization
  • scalability
  • interpretability
  • user privacy
  • cold-start problem
  • data heterogeneity
  • large language models in recommendations
  • deep learning in recommendations
  • graph neural networks
  • hybrid collaborative filtering
  • context-aware recommendations
  • sequential recommendations
  • multi-modal data integration
  • fairness and transparency in recommendations
  • real-world applications
  • artificial intelligence
  • machine learning
  • data science
  • information retrieval
  • algorithms

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Enhancing the Recommendation of Learning Resources for Learners via an Advanced Knowledge Graph
by Chao Duan, Jin Yang, Qiaoling Cui, Wenlong Zhang, Xuelian Wan and Mingyan Zhang
Appl. Sci. 2025, 15(8), 4204; https://doi.org/10.3390/app15084204 - 11 Apr 2025
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Personalized learning resource recommendation is an essential component of intelligent tutoring systems. To address the issue of the plethora of learning resources and enhance the learner experience in intelligent tutoring systems, learning resource recommendation systems have been developed to model learners’ preferences. Despite [...] Read more.
Personalized learning resource recommendation is an essential component of intelligent tutoring systems. To address the issue of the plethora of learning resources and enhance the learner experience in intelligent tutoring systems, learning resource recommendation systems have been developed to model learners’ preferences. Despite numerous efforts and achievements in academia and industry toward more personalized learning, intelligent education tailored to individual learners still faces challenges, such as inadequate user representation and potential information loss during the aggregation of multi-source heterogeneous information features. In recent years, knowledge-graph-based recommendation systems have brought hope for mitigating these issues and achieving more accurate recommendations. In this paper, we propose a novel personalized learning resource recommendation method based on a knowledge graph named the Learner-Enhanced Knowledge Graph Attention (LKGA) network. This model enhances learner representation by extracting collaborative signals, where learning resources clicked by learners who have clicked the same resource are considered potential collaborative signals and are concatenated with the original learning resource features to form the initial entity set for the learner. Furthermore, during the entity aggregation process, each tail entity has different semantic expressions, and an attention mechanism is used to distinguish the importance of different neighbor entities. Additionally, residual connections are added in each hop of the learner’s aggregation process, with the information from the first hop added to each subsequent hop to reduce information loss. We applied the proposed LKGA model to a real-world dataset, and the experimental results fully validate the effectiveness of our model. Full article
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