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Recommendations in a heterogeneous service environment

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This paper presents novel algorithms which are able to generate recommendations within a heterogeneous service environment. In this work explicitly set preferences as well as implicitly logged viewing behavior are employed to generate recommendations for Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) content. This paper also discusses the similarity between the DVB genres and YouTube categories. In addition it presents results to show the comparison between well known collaborative filtering methods. The outcome of this comparison study is used to identify the most suitable filtering method to use in the proposed environment. Finally the paper presents a novel Personal Program Guide (PPG), which is used as a tool to visualize the generated recommendations within a heterogeneous service environment. This PPG is also capable of showing the linear DVB content and the non-linear YouTube videos in a single view.

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  1. City University London, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB, United Kingdom

    Christian Überall, Christopher Köhnen, Veselin Rakocevic & Muttukrishnan Rajarajan

  2. University of Applied Sciences - Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Wilhelm-Leuschner-Strasse 13, 61169, Friedberg, Germany

    Christian Überall, Christopher Köhnen, Rudolf Jäger & Erich Hoy

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Überall, C., Köhnen, C., Rakocevic, V. et al. Recommendations in a heterogeneous service environment. Multimed Tools Appl 62, 785–820 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-011-0874-2

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