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Reputation systems are employed to measure the quality of items on the Web. Incorporating accurate reputation scores in recommender systems is useful to provide more accurate recommendations as recommenders are agnostic to reputation. The ratings aggregation process is a vital component of a reputation system. Reputation models available do not consider statistical data in the rating aggregation process. This limitation can reduce the accuracy of generated reputation scores. In this paper, we propose a new reputation model that considers previously ignored statistical data. We compare our proposed model against state-of the-art models using top-N recommender system experiment.
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Abdel-Hafez, A., Xu, Y. (2015). Exploiting the Beta Distribution-Based Reputation Model in Recommender System. In: Pfahringer, B., Renz, J. (eds) AI 2015: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9457. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26350-2_1
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