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WISE 2011, WISE 2012: Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2011 and 2012 Workshops pp 41–52Cite as

Contextual Modelling in Context-Aware Recommender Systems: A Generic Approach

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Abstract

Context-aware recommender systems (CARS) use context data to enhance their recommendation outcomes by providing more personalized recommendations. Context modelling is a basic procedure towards this direction since it models the contextual parameters to be used during the recommendation process. Most literature works however build domain specific contextual models that only represent information of a particular domain, excluding the possibility of model sharing and reuse among other CARS. In this paper we focus on this issue and study whether a more generic modelling approach can be applied for CARS. We discuss a possible solution and show through literature review on relevant systems that the proposed solution has not yet been applied. Next, we present a novel generic contextual modelling framework for CARS, discuss its advantages and evaluate it.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, 1 University Avenue, P.O.Box 20537, CY-2109

    Christos Mettouris & George A. Papadopoulos

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  1. Information Engineering Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

    Armin Haller

  2. Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

    Guangyan Huang

  3. Department of Computer Science, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Zhisheng Huang

  4. The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Hye-young Paik

  5. Department of Computer Science, Adelaide University, 5005, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Quan Z. Sheng

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Mettouris, C., Papadopoulos, G.A. (2013). Contextual Modelling in Context-Aware Recommender Systems: A Generic Approach. In: Haller, A., Huang, G., Huang, Z., Paik, Hy., Sheng, Q.Z. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2011 and 2012 Workshops. WISE WISE 2011 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7652. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38333-5_6

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