Abstract

Background: Due to huge data in web sites, recommending users for every product is impossible. For this problem Recommender Systems (RS) are introduced. RS is categorized into Content-Based (CB), collaborative Filtering (CF) and Hybrid RS. Based on these techniques recommendations are done to user. In this, CF is the recent technique used in RS in which tagging feature also provided.

Objective: Three main issues occur in RS are scalability problem which occurs when there is a huge data, sparsity problem occurs when rating data is missing and cols start user or item problem occurs when new user or new item enters in the system. To avoid these issues here we have proposed Incremental clustering and Trust in Collaborative Tagging.

Methods: Here we have proposed a method Collaborative Tagging (CT) with Incremental Clustering and Trust which enhances the recommendation quality by removing the issues of scalability with the help of Incremental Clustering and sparsity and cold start user or item problems are resolved with the help of Trust.

Results: Here we have compared the results of Collaborative tagging with Incremental Clustering and Trust (CFT-EDIC-TS) with the baseline approaches of CT with Cosine similarity (CFT-CS), CT with Euclidian Distance and Incremental Clustering (CFT-EDIC) and CT with Trust (CFT-TS).

Conclusion: Here we have compare the proposed approach with the baseline approaches and the metrics are used MAE, prediction percentage, Precision and Recall. Based on these metrics for every split CFT-EDICTS shown best results as compared to other baseline approaches.

Keywords: Recommender systems, collaborative filtering, collaborative tagging, sparsity, scalability, cold-start user.

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