International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems

Volume 1, Issue 3, August 2008, Pages 225 - 236

A Knowledge Based Recommender System with Multigranular Linguistic Information

Authors
Luis Martinez, Manuel J. Barranco, Luis G. Perez, Macarena Espinilla
Corresponding Author
Luis Martinez
Received 3 January 2008, Revised 30 June 2008, Available Online 1 August 2008.
DOI
10.2991/ijcis.2008.1.3.4How to use a DOI?
Abstract

Recommender systems are applications that have emerged in the e-commerce area in order to assist users in their searches in electronic shops. These shops usually offer a wide range of items that cover the necessities of a great variety of users. Nevertheless, searching in such a wide range of items could be a very difficult and time-consuming task. Recommender systems assist users to find out suitable items by means of recommendations based on information provided by different sources such as: other users, experts, item features, etc. Most of the recommender systems force users to provide their preferences or necessities using an unique numerical scale of information fixed in advance. In spite of this information is usually related to opinions, tastes and perceptions, therefore, it seems that is usually better expressed in a qualitative way, with linguistic terms, than in a quantitative way, with precise numbers. We propose a Knowledge Based Recommender System that uses the fuzzy linguistic approach to define a flexible framework to capture the uncertainty of the user's preferences. Thus, this framework will allow users to express their necessities in scales closer to their own knowledge, and different from the scale utilized to describe the items.

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© 2008, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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Journal
International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
Volume-Issue
1 - 3
Pages
225 - 236
Publication Date
2008/08/01
ISBN
1875-6883
ISSN (Online)
1875-6883
ISSN (Print)
1875-6891
DOI
10.2991/ijcis.2008.1.3.4How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2008, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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