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  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,009 Views
13 Pages

A Hybrid Recommendation Approach for Viral Food Based on Online Reviews

  • Cen Song,
  • Qing Yu,
  • Esther Jose,
  • Jun Zhuang and
  • He Geng

4 August 2021

Nowadays, there are many types of viral foods and consumers expect to be able to quickly find foods that meet their own tastes. Traditional recommendation systems make recommendations based on the popularity of viral foods or user ratings. However, b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,405 Views
17 Pages

29 July 2022

At present, there are a large number of growing medical applications in the application market. It is difficult for users to find satisfactory medical services conveniently and efficiently. The classical collaborative filtering algorithm has some pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,089 Views
20 Pages

A Hybrid News Recommendation Approach Based on Title–Content Matching

  • Shuhao Jiang,
  • Yizi Lu,
  • Haoran Song,
  • Zihong Lu and
  • Yong Zhang

6 July 2024

Personalized news recommendation can alleviate the information overload problem, and accurate modeling of user interests is the core of personalized news recommendation. Existing news recommendation methods integrate the titles and contents of news a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,976 Views
21 Pages

Cloud-service recommendation systems make suggestions based on ratings provided by cloud users. These ratings may contain sparse data, which makes it difficult to speculate on suitable cloud services. Moreover, new cloud users often suffer from cold-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,318 Views
16 Pages

Comparative Study of Filtering Methods for Scientific Research Article Recommendations

  • Driss El Alaoui,
  • Jamal Riffi,
  • Abdelouahed Sabri,
  • Badraddine Aghoutane,
  • Ali Yahyaouy and
  • Hamid Tairi

Given the daily influx of scientific publications, researchers often face challenges in identifying relevant content amid the vast volume of available information, typically resorting to conventional methods like keyword searches or manual browsing....

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,135 Views
25 Pages

A Novel Emotion-Aware Hybrid Music Recommendation Method Using Deep Neural Network

  • Shu Wang,
  • Chonghuan Xu,
  • Austin Shijun Ding and
  • Zhongyun Tang

Emotion-aware music recommendations has gained increasing attention in recent years, as music comes with the ability to regulate human emotions. Exploiting emotional information has the potential to improve recommendation performances. However, conve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,929 Views
21 Pages

Service Recommendations Using a Hybrid Approach in Knowledge Graph with Keyword Acceptance Criteria

  • Jawad Ahmad,
  • Abdur Rehman,
  • Hafiz Tayyab Rauf,
  • Kashif Javed,
  • Maram Abdullah Alkhayyal and
  • Abeer Ali Alnuaim

31 March 2022

Businesses are overgrowing worldwide; people struggle for their businesses and startups in almost every field of life, whether industrial or academic. The businesses or services have multiple income streams with which they generate revenue. Most comp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,532 Views
19 Pages

Promoting Sustainable Travel Experiences: A Weighted Parallel Hybrid Approach for Personalized Tourism Recommendations and Enhanced User Satisfaction

  • Hala Alshamlan,
  • Ghala Alghofaili,
  • Nourah ALFulayj,
  • Shatha Aldawsari,
  • Yara Alrubaiya and
  • Reham Alabduljabbar

3 October 2023

With the growing significance of the tourism industry and the increasing desire among travelers to discover new destinations, there is a need for effective recommender systems that cater to individual interests. Existing tourism mobile applications i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,059 Views
19 Pages

30 September 2024

Heart rate (HR) is a key indicator of fitness and cardiovascular health, and accurate HR monitoring and prediction are essential for enhancing personalized fitness experiences. The rise of wearable technology has significantly improved the ability to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,975 Views
13 Pages

Recommender systems are widely used in various fields, such as e-commerce, entertainment, and education, to provide personalized recommendations to users based on their preferences and/or behavior. Τhis paper presents a novel approach to providin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,590 Views
11 Pages

A Recommendation Model for Selling Rules in the Telecom Retail Industry

  • Tsung-Ying Ou,
  • Wen-Lung Tsai,
  • Yi-Chen Lee,
  • Tien-Hsiang Chang,
  • Shih-Hsiung Lee and
  • Fen-Fen Huang

1 June 2022

The recommendation of the optimal selling rules for any product or service is challenging, owing to the complexity of the customer’s behavior and the competitiveness existing in the telecom retail industry. This study proposes a recommendation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,589 Views
12 Pages

15 March 2023

Product recommendation systems are essential for enhancing customer experience, and integrating them with mobile apps is crucial for improving usability and fostering user engagement. This study proposes a hybrid approach that utilizes comparative fa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,737 Views
18 Pages

3 February 2019

The Recommender System (RS) has obtained a pivotal role in e-commerce. To improve the performance of RS, review text information has been extensively utilized. However, it is still a challenge for RS to extract the most informative feature from a tre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,163 Views
16 Pages

21 January 2019

We approach scalability and cold start problems of collaborative recommendation in this paper. An intelligent hybrid filtering framework that maximizes feature engineering and solves cold start problem for personalized recommendation based on deep le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,806 Views
26 Pages

A Novel Hybrid Recommender System for the Tourism Domain

  • Georgios Chalkiadakis,
  • Ioannis Ziogas,
  • Michail Koutsmanis,
  • Errikos Streviniotis,
  • Costas Panagiotakis and
  • Harris Papadakis

21 April 2023

In this paper, we develop a novel hybrid recommender system for the tourism domain, which combines (a) a Bayesian preferences elicitation component which operates by asking the user to rate generic images (corresponding to generic types of POIs) in o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,486 Views
29 Pages

The optimization and allocation of transport cost savings among stakeholders are two important issues that influence the satisfaction of information providers, drivers and passengers in ridesharing recommendation systems. For optimization issues, fin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,770 Views
21 Pages

A Flexible Profile-Based Recommender System for Discovering Cultural Activities in an Emerging Tourist Destination

  • Isabel Arregocés-Julio,
  • Andrés Solano-Barliza,
  • Aida Valls,
  • Antonio Moreno,
  • Marysol Castillo-Palacio,
  • Melisa Acosta-Coll and
  • José Escorcia-Gutierrez

Recommendation systems applied to tourism are widely recognized for improving the visitor’s experience in tourist destinations, thanks to their ability to personalize the trip. This paper presents a hybrid approach that combines Machine Learnin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,580 Views
22 Pages

18 December 2020

Recommendation systems aim to decipher user interests, preferences, and behavioral patterns automatically. However, it becomes trickier to make the most trustworthy and reliable recommendation to users, especially when their hardest earned money is a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,087 Views
19 Pages

24 December 2019

The standard matrix factorization methods for recommender systems suffer from data sparsity and cold-start problems. Thus, in real-world scenarios where items are commonly associated with textual data such as reviews, it becomes necessary to build a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,146 Views
19 Pages

Using a Hybrid Recommending System for Learning Videos in Flipped Classrooms and MOOCs

  • Jaume Jordán,
  • Soledad Valero,
  • Carlos Turró and
  • Vicent Botti

New challenges in education require new ways of education. Higher education has adapted to these new challenges by means of offering new types of training like massive online open courses and by updating their teaching methodology using novel approac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,272 Views
19 Pages

Top-N Recommender Systems Using Genetic Algorithm-Based Visual-Clustering Methods

  • Ukrit Marung,
  • Nipon Theera-Umpon and
  • Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul

24 June 2016

The drastic increase of websites is one of the causes behind the recent information overload on the internet. A recommender system (RS) has been developed for helping users filter information. However, the cold-start and sparsity problems lead to low...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,930 Views
20 Pages

5 July 2023

One of the five types of Internet information service recommendation technologies is the personalized recommendation algorithm, and knowledge graphs are frequently used in these algorithms. RippleNet is a personalized recommendation model based on kn...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
13,588 Views
66 Pages

Hybrid Quality-Based Recommender Systems: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Bihi Sabiri,
  • Amal Khtira,
  • Bouchra El Asri and
  • Maryem Rhanoui

As technology develops, consumer behavior and how people search for what they want are constantly evolving. Online shopping has fundamentally changed the e-commerce industry. Although there are more products available than ever before, only a small p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,741 Views
20 Pages

Product Quality Assessment in the Internet of Things: A Consumer-Oriented Approach

  • Mohammed Sharief Abdelrahman Naem,
  • Mouloud Koudil and
  • Zineeddine Ouldimam

12 March 2022

This paper proposes a consumer-oriented approach to IoT product recommendations. It is designed to help new consumers choose high-quality IoT products that best meet their needs. We used hybrid techniques to implement the proposed approach. Experimen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,720 Views
19 Pages

A Hybrid Ontology-Based Recommendation System in e-Commerce

  • Márcio Guia,
  • Rodrigo Rocha Silva and
  • Jorge Bernardino

8 November 2019

The growth of the Internet has increased the amount of data and information available to any person at any time. Recommendation Systems help users find the items that meet their preferences, among the large number of items available. Techniques such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,073 Views
24 Pages

SyrAgri: A Recommender System for Agriculture in Mali

  • Jacqueline Konaté,
  • Amadou G. Diarra,
  • Seydina O. Diarra and
  • Aminata Diallo

30 November 2020

This paper focuses on recommender system for agriculture in Mali called SyrAgri. The goal is to guide and improve the quality-of-experience of farmers by offering them good farming practices according to their needs. Two types of recommendations are...

  • Review
  • Open Access
148 Citations
26,165 Views
21 Pages

Recommendation Systems for Education: Systematic Review

  • María Cora Urdaneta-Ponte,
  • Amaia Mendez-Zorrilla and
  • Ibon Oleagordia-Ruiz

Recommendation systems have emerged as a response to overload in terms of increased amounts of information online, which has become a problem for users regarding the time spent on their search and the amount of information retrieved by it. In the fie...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access

7 November 2025

Currently, the recommendation system is a challenging task in the 21st centuries.The three main reasons and these are: the need for real-time user behavior analysis, the inability to explain why recommendations are made, and the difficulty handling n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,795 Views
16 Pages

10 October 2021

Recommender systems are being used in streaming service platforms to provide users with personalized suggestions to increase user satisfaction. These recommendations are primarily based on data about the interaction of users with the system; however,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,479 Views
16 Pages

25 July 2023

This paper proposes a recommendation system based on a hybrid learning approach for a personal deep sleep service, called the Customized Deep Sleep Recommender System (CDSRS). Sleep is one of the most important factors for human life in modern societ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
5,625 Views
18 Pages

Convolutional Neural Network-Based Personalized Program Recommendation System for Smart Television Users

  • Khasim Vali Dudekula,
  • Hussain Syed,
  • Mohamed Iqbal Mahaboob Basha,
  • Sudhakar Ilango Swamykan,
  • Purna Prakash Kasaraneni,
  • Yellapragada Venkata Pavan Kumar,
  • Aymen Flah and
  • Ahmad Taher Azar

25 January 2023

The smart home culture is rapidly increasing across the globe and driving smart home users toward utilizing smart appliances. Smart television (TV) is one such appliance that is embedded with smart technology. The users of smart TV have their interes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,953 Views
30 Pages

6 October 2025

In large-scale e-commerce, recommendation systems must overcome the shortcomings of conventional models, which often struggle to convert user interest into purchases. This study proposes a revenue-driven recommendation approach that explicitly incorp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
12,135 Views
27 Pages

A Thematic Travel Recommendation System Using an Augmented Big Data Analytical Model

  • Suriya Priya R. Asaithambi,
  • Ramanathan Venkatraman and
  • Sitalakshmi Venkatraman

Tour planning has become both challenging and time-consuming due to the huge amount of information available online and the variety of options to choose from. This is more so as each traveler has unique set of interests and location preferences in ad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,414 Views
17 Pages

25 March 2025

With the rise of e-commerce and web application usage, recommendation systems have become important to our daily tasks. They provide personalized suggestions to assist with any task under consideration. While various machine learning algorithms have...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,118 Views
21 Pages

A Hybrid Knowledge-Based Recommender for Product-Service Systems Mass Customization

  • Laila Esheiba,
  • Amal Elgammal,
  • Iman M. A. Helal and
  • Mohamed E. El-Sharkawi

26 July 2021

Manufacturers today compete to offer not only products, but products accompanied by services, which are referred to as product-service systems (PSSs). PSS mass customization is defined as the production of products and services to meet the needs of i...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
535 Views
9 Pages

Within the Clean Sky 2 regional project, a hybrid environmental control system has been conceived that combines the classical bleed air approach with a vapor cycle cooling in the recirculation air. To protect partners’ IP, a functional mock-up...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,061 Views
26 Pages

Neural Collaborative Filtering with Ontologies for Integrated Recommendation Systems

  • Rana Alaa El-deen Ahmed,
  • Manuel Fernández-Veiga and
  • Mariam Gawich

17 January 2022

Machine learning (ML) and especially deep learning (DL) with neural networks have demonstrated an amazing success in all sorts of AI problems, from computer vision to game playing, from natural language processing to speech and image recognition. In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,527 Views
16 Pages

Hybrid Sparrow Clustered (HSC) Algorithm for Top-N Recommendation System

  • Bharti Sharma,
  • Adeel Hashmi,
  • Charu Gupta,
  • Osamah Ibrahim Khalaf,
  • Ghaida Muttashar Abdulsahib and
  • Malakeh Muhyiddeen Itani

11 April 2022

Recommendation systems suggest relevant items to a user based on the similarity between users or between items. In a collaborative filtering approach for generating recommendations, there is a symmetry between the users. That is, if user A has simila...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,163 Views
16 Pages

4 July 2020

Open educational resources (OER) can contribute to democratize education by providing effective learning experiences with lower costs. Nevertheless, the massive amount of resources currently available in OER repositories makes it difficult for teache...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,829 Views
14 Pages

A Comprehensive Comparative Study of Quick Invariant Signature (QIS), Dynamic Time Warping (DTW), and Hybrid QIS + DTW for Time Series Analysis

  • Hamid Reza Shahbazkia,
  • Hamid Reza Khosravani,
  • Alisher Pulatov,
  • Elmira Hajimani and
  • Mahsa Kiazadeh

19 March 2025

This study presents a comprehensive evaluation of the quick invariant signature (QIS), dynamic time warping (DTW), and a novel hybrid QIS + DTW approach for time series analysis. QIS, a translation and rotation invariant shape descriptor, and DTW, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,918 Views
19 Pages

26 June 2025

Renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power, are gaining increasing global attention. To facilitate their integration into transportation infrastructure, this paper proposes a multi-criteria assessment framework for identifying the most su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,632 Views
13 Pages

17 July 2019

Pine-oak mixed forests in the Qinling Mountains are an essential part of the ecosystem in Northwestern China. Diameter distribution models for four species groups of pine-oak mixed forests were developed using the Weibull function. Both moment and hy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,186 Views
17 Pages

Drug Recommendation from Diagnosis Codes: Classification vs. Collaborative Filtering Approaches

  • Apichat Sae-Ang,
  • Sawrawit Chairat,
  • Natchada Tansuebchueasai,
  • Orapan Fumaneeshoat,
  • Thammasin Ingviya and
  • Sitthichok Chaichulee

Over time, large amounts of clinical data have accumulated in electronic health records (EHRs), making it difficult for healthcare professionals to navigate and make patient-centered decisions. This underscores the need for healthcare recommendation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Views
17 Pages

Aligning Minds in Spasticity Care—A Two-Phase Delphi-Dialogue Study of Patients and Professionals in Spain

  • Helena Bascuñana-Ambrós,
  • Jacobo Formigo-Couceiro,
  • José Maria Climent-Barberá,
  • Lluis Guirao-Cano,
  • Michelle Catta-Preta,
  • Alex Trejo-Omeñaca and
  • Josep Maria Monguet-Fierro

22 January 2026

Background: Spasticity, which occurs with certain neurological conditions, substantially affects quality of life, function, and social participation. Despite widespread botulinum toxin use, variability persists in patient information, access to speci...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
8,073 Views
16 Pages

Digital Twin Application for Model-Based DoE to Rapidly Identify Ideal Process Conditions for Space-Time Yield Optimization

  • Benjamin Bayer,
  • Roger Dalmau Diaz,
  • Michael Melcher,
  • Gerald Striedner and
  • Mark Duerkop

25 June 2021

The fast exploration of a design space and identification of the best process conditions facilitating the highest space-time yield are of great interest for manufacturers. To obtain this information, depending on the design space, a large number of p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
4,545 Views
18 Pages

Toward Zero-Emission Hybrid AC/DC Power Systems with Renewable Energy Sources and Storages: A Case Study from Lake Baikal Region

  • Denis Sidorov,
  • Daniil Panasetsky,
  • Nikita Tomin,
  • Dmitriy Karamov,
  • Aleksei Zhukov,
  • Ildar Muftahov,
  • Aliona Dreglea,
  • Fang Liu and
  • Yong Li

6 March 2020

Tourism development in ecologically vulnerable areas like the lake Baikal region in Eastern Siberia is a challenging problem. To this end, the dynamical models of AC/DC hybrid isolated power system consisting of four power grids with renewable genera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
7,441 Views
28 Pages

8 April 2020

Despite advancements in the Internet of Things (IoT) and social networks, developing an intelligent service discovery and composition framework in the Social IoT (SIoT) domain remains a challenge. In the IoT, a large number of things are connected to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,764 Views
25 Pages

Power to the Learner: Towards Human-Intuitive and Integrative Recommendations with Open Educational Resources

  • Sahan Bulathwela,
  • María Pérez-Ortiz,
  • Emine Yilmaz and
  • John Shawe-Taylor

17 September 2022

Educational recommenders have received much less attention in comparison with e-commerce- and entertainment-related recommenders, even though efficient intelligent tutors could have potential to improve learning gains and enable advances in education...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
2,653 Views
15 Pages

25 November 2022

This paper presents a machine learning-based approach to estimating the compressive strength and elastic modulus of rocks. A hybrid model, GWO-ELM, was built based on an extreme learning machine network optimized by the grey wolf algorithm. The propo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,242 Views
22 Pages

Dynamic to Static Model Comparison and Hybrid Metaheuristic Optimization in Induction Motor Parameter Estimation

  • Nelson H. B. Santana,
  • Imene Yahyaoui,
  • Flavio D. C. Oliveira,
  • Arthur E. A. Amorim,
  • Domingos S. L. Simonetti and
  • Helder R. O. Rocha

This paper presents a comprehensive study of parameter estimation for three-phase induction motors (IMs) using hybrid optimization methods and a comparative evaluation of static and dynamic modeling approaches. A hybrid metaheuristic combining the Si...

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