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A Food Recommendation Algorithm with Context

  

  1. 1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, Nanjing 210094, China;

    2. School of Environment and Architecture, Shanghai University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
  • Received:2015-01-07 Online:2015-07-23 Published:2015-07-28

Abstract:

As the traditional collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm didn’t consider the situation that context information affected the users’ behavior seriously, a
recommendation algorithm with context was put forward and the algorithm was applied to food recommendation. First of all, the context was added to the traditional useritem
model expressed as an attributes vector, resulting in a UIC interest model. Then SubUsers were created according to different context from one user, thus obtaining a
new useritem ratings matrix in a certain context. Because the data sparseness problem was easy to generate in this approach, WSlopeOne algorithm was designed to predict
unknown ratings. Based on optimized similarity formula, more effective recommendation service would be provided that can more accurately find the current users neighbor,
providing users with good service. Last, experiments were done to verify the contents this paper proposed and expectation for further research was brought forward.

Key words: interest model, recommendation algorithm, collaborative filtering, context information, similarity formula

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