Recommender systems are used extensively now-a-days for various web-sites such as for providing products suggestions based on customers’ purchase history and searched product keywords. Current recommendation system approaches lack of a high degree of stability. Diversification of prediction is also important feature of recommender system. Having displayed same set of results every time may incr...

In the past, classic recommender systems relied solely on the user models they were able to construct by themselves and suffered from the “cold start” problem. Recent decade advances, among them internet connectivity and data sharing, now enable them to bootstrap their user models from external sources such as user modeling servers or other recommender systems. However, this approach has only b...

Reputation systems are employed to provide users with advice on the quality of items on the Web, based on the aggregated value of user-based ratings. Recommender systems are used online to suggest items to users according to the users, expressed preferences. Yet, recommender systems will endorse an item regardless of its reputation value. In this paper, we report the incorporation of reputation...

Recommender systems have evolved in the last years as specialized tools to assist users in a plethora of computermediated tasks by providing guidelines or hints. Most recommender systems are aimed at facilitating access to relevant items, a situation particularly common when performing web-based tasks. At the same time, defeasible argumentation has evolved as a successful approach in AI to mode...

The powerful and democratic activity of social tagging allows the wide set of Web users to add free annotations on resources. Tags express user interests, preferences and needs, but also automatically generate folksonomies. They can be considered as gold mine, especially for e-commerce applications, in order to provide effective recommendations. Thus, several recommender systems exploit folkson...

Recommender systems apply statistical and knowledge discovery techniques to the problem of making recommendations during live user interaction. This paper describes a novel approach of building recommender systems for the Web with the aid of usergenerated content. Recently certain communities of Internet users have engaged in creating high quality peer reviewed content for the Web. In our appro...