Collaborative Personalized Web Recommender System using Entropy based Similarity Measure

TL;DR

This paper presents a scalable, entropy-based similarity measure for collaborative web recommendation systems, dividing user sessions into two levels to identify trustworthy recommenders and generate personalized suggestions.

Contribution

Introduces an entropy-based similarity approach with a two-level session division to improve scalability and trustworthiness in collaborative web recommendations.

Findings

Entropy-based similarity effectively measures user similarity.

Two-level session division improves recommendation trustworthiness.

Top N recommendations are successfully generated from trustworthy recommenders.

Abstract

On the internet, web surfers, in the search of information, always strive for recommendations. The solutions for generating recommendations become more difficult because of exponential increase in information domain day by day. In this paper, we have calculated entropy based similarity between users to achieve solution for scalability problem. Using this concept, we have implemented an online user based collaborative web recommender system. In this model based collaborative system, the user session is divided into two levels. Entropy is calculated at both the levels. It is shown that from the set of valuable recommenders obtained at level I; only those recommenders having lower entropy at level II than entropy at level I, served as trustworthy recommenders. Finally, top N recommendations are generated from such trustworthy recommenders for an online user.