Affiliations: Computer Engineering Department, College of Engineering, AL-Iraqia University, Baghdad, Iraq | E-mail: [email protected]
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Corresponding author: Computer Engineering Department, College of Engineering, AL-Iraqia University, Baghdad, Iraq. E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: Web growth, especially in social networks, is continuously increasing every day. Multiplicity of products offered and web pages has made picking up relevant items a tedious job. On the other hand, different tastes and behaviors of users is creating the probability to find a similar user among a large group of users difficult. As a result, automated software systems have difficulty to discover what is interesting to users. We have proposed a new approach to adapt to this flow. We will exploit domain knowledge of training data set to create a summary matrix. The summary matrix consists of new and few columns according to the attribute values of the selected feature. We fill the summary matrix with the average ratings based on the number of times that the attribute values appear in the user’s profile for rated items. We use the summary matrix in two hybrid recommender systems. In our approach, we use meta-level technique which is one of the pipelined hybridization techniques. The proposed approach will reduce the effects of sparsity, cold start, and scalability which are common problems with the collaborative recommender systems. Furthermore, the proposed approach will improve the recommendation accuracy when there is comparison with the Collaborative Filtering Pearson Correlation approach and it will be faster as well.
