The past few years have witnessed the great success of recommender systems, which can significantly help users to find out personalized items for them from the information era. One of the widest applied recommendation methods is the Matrix Factorization (MF). However, most of the researches on...

Recommender systems seek to find the interesting items by filtering out the worthless items. Collaborative filtering is one of the most successful recommendation approaches. It typically associates a user with a group of like-minded users based on their preferences over all the items and...

Collaborative tags are playing a more and more important role for the organization of information systems. In this paper, we study a personalized recommendation model making use of the ternary relations among users, objects and tags. We propose a measure of user similarity based on his...

In this paper, by applying a diffusion process, we propose a new index to quantify the similarity between two users in a user–object bipartite graph. To deal with the discrete ratings on objects, we use a multi-channel representation where each object is mapped to several channels with the...

The explosive growth of information asks for advanced information filtering techniques to solve the so-called information overload problem. A promising way is the recommender system which analyzes the historical records of users’ activities and accordingly provides personalized...

In this paper, we introduce a modified collaborative filtering (MCF) algorithm, which has remarkably higher accuracy than the standard collaborative filtering. In the MCF, instead of the cosine similarity index, the user–user correlations are obtained by a diffusion process. Furthermore, by...

We investigate an economic system in which one large agent—the Japan government changes the environment of numerous smaller agents—the Japan agriculture producers by indirect regulation of prices of agriculture goods. The reason for this intervention was that before the oil crisis in 1974...

In this paper, we propose a novel method to compute the similarity between congeneric nodes in bipartite networks. Different from the standard cosine similarity, we take into account the influence of a node’s degree. Substituting this new definition of similarity for the standard cosine...

Bipartite network based recommendations have attracted extensive attentions in recent years. Differing from traditional object-oriented recommendations, the recommendation in a Microblog network has two crucial differences. One is high authority users or one’s special friends usually play a...

Personalized recommendation is an effective method for fighting “information overload”. However, its performance is often limited by several factors, such as sparsity and cold-start. Some researchers utilize user-created tags of social tagging system to depict user preferences for...