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Website-oriented recommendation based on heat spreading and tag-aware collaborative filtering

Zhang, Zi-Ke ; Yu, Lu ; Fang, Kuan ; You, Zhi-Qiang ; Liu, Chuang ; Liu, Hao ; Yan, Xiao-Yong

In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2014, vol. 399, p. 82–88

Recently, Recommender Systems has been widely applied in helping users find potentially interesting items from the era of big data. However, most of researches on this topic have focused on estimating the direct relationships between users and items, neglecting other available information. In this paper, we discuss about mining webs with information extracted from search and browser logs of...

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Recommender systems

Lü, Linyuan ; Medo, Matúš ; Yeung, Chi Ho ; Zhang, Yi-Cheng ; Zhang, Zi-Ke ; Zhou, Tao

In: Physics Reports, 2012, vol. 519, no. 1, p. 1–49

The ongoing rapid expansion of the Internet greatly increases the necessity of effective recommender systems for filtering the abundant information. Extensive research for recommender systems is conducted by a broad range of communities including social and computer scientists, physicists, and interdisciplinary researchers. Despite substantial theoretical and practical achievements, unification...

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Effective mechanism for social recommendation of news

Wei, Dong ; Zhou, Tao ; Cimini, Giulio ; Wu, Pei ; Liu, Weiping ; Zhang, Yi-Cheng

In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2011, vol. 390, no. 11, p. 2117-2126

Recommender systems represent an important tool for news distribution on the Internet. In this work we modify a recently proposed social recommendation model in order to deal with no explicit ratings of users on news. The model consists of a network of users which continually adapts in order to achieve an efficient news traffic. To optimize the network’s topology we propose different stochastic...

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Information filtering via weighted heat conduction algorithm

Liu, Jian-Guo ; Guo, Qiang ; Zhang, Yi-Cheng

In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2011, p. -

In this paper, by taking into account effects of the user and object correlations on a heat conduction (HC) algorithm, a weighted heat conduction (WHC) algorithm is presented. We argue that the edge weight of the user–object bipartite network should be embedded into the HC algorithm to measure the object similarity. The numerical results indicate that both the accuracy and diversity could be...

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Effects of high-order correlations on personalized recommendations for bipartite networks

Liu, Jian-Guo ; Zhou, Tao ; Che, Hong-An ; Wang, Bing-Hong ; Zhang, Yi-Cheng

In: Physica A, 2010, vol. 389, no. 4, p. 881-886

In this paper, we introduce a modified collaborative filtering (MCF) algorithm, which has remarkably higher accuracy than the standard collaborative filtering. In the MCF, instead of the cosine similarity index, the user–user correlations are obtained by a diffusion process. Furthermore, by considering the second-order correlations, we design an effective algorithm that depresses the influence...

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Collaborative filtering based on multi-channel diffusion

Shang, Ming-Sheng ; Jin, Ci-Hang ; Zhou, Tao ; Zhang, Yi-Cheng

In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2009, vol. 388, no. 23, p. 4867-4871

In this paper, by applying a diffusion process, we propose a new index to quantify the similarity between two users in a user–object bipartite graph. To deal with the discrete ratings on objects, we use a multi-channel representation where each object is mapped to several channels with the number of channels being equal to the number of different ratings. Each channel represents a certain...