Timeliness in recommender systems

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Highlights:

• Recommendation accuracy is much lower in temporal than random data division.

• We introduce a metric measuring the timeliness of the recommendation.

• Low accuracy is caused by the tendency of algorithms to recommend out-of-date items.

• Timeliness factor is used to modify the recommendation score of items.

• The recommendation accuracy is largely improved with the timeliness-based approach.

摘要

•Recommendation accuracy is much lower in temporal than random data division.•We introduce a metric measuring the timeliness of the recommendation.•Low accuracy is caused by the tendency of algorithms to recommend out-of-date items.•Timeliness factor is used to modify the recommendation score of items.•The recommendation accuracy is largely improved with the timeliness-based approach.

论文关键词:Recommender systems,Bipartite networks,Timeliness,Data division

论文评审过程:Received 8 January 2017, Revised 26 March 2017, Accepted 15 May 2017, Available online 19 May 2017, Version of Record 23 May 2017.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.05.038