Recommender System Using Collaborative Filtering Algorithm

............................................................................................................................................ 5 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 6 The vehicle (the website) .......................................................................................................................... 6 Motivation ................................................................................................................................................. 6 Why is it important? .................................................................................................................................. 8 goals and objectives .................................................................................................................................. 8 Background and Related Work ........................................................................................................ 9 Traditional Collaborative Filtering ........................................................................................................... 9 User-based Collaborative Filtering: .................................................................................................... 10 Item-based Collaborative Filtering: .................................................................................................... 11 Model-based Collaborative Filtering .................................................................................................. 12 Search based Methods ............................................................................................................................. 13 Amazon’s item-to-item collaborative filtering........................................................................................ 13 Program Requirements ................................................................................................................... 15 web architecture ...................................................................................................................................... 16 Flow chart of System Structure ........................................................................................................... 16 Home ................................................................................................................................................... 17 My account .......................................................................................................................................... 17 Post ...................................................................................................................................................... 17 Database Structure: ................................................................................................................................. 18 ER Diagram ........................................................................................................................................ 18 Relational diagram .............................................................................................................................. 19 User Interface .......................................................................................................................................... 24 Implementation .............................................................................................................................. 27 How it Works .......................................................................................................................................... 27 Technologies/Tools were used ................................................................................................................ 28 Challenges ...................................................................................................................................... 28 Item Features ....................................................................................................................................... 28 Image Storage ...................................................................................................................................... 29 4 New User and New Item Problem .................................................................................................. 29 Results, Evaluation, and Reflection ................................................................................................. 30 Conclusions and Future Work ........................................................................................................ 31 Bibliography ................................................................................................................................... 33 Glossary .......................................................................................................................................... 35