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In this Demo we wish to demonstrate that it is not possible to evaluate a recommender’s ability on the basis of how good it is in carrying out the task we are interested in. On the contrary, a recommender should be evaluated as such. Although this mechanism is often used in literature, it unavoidably leads to incorrect results.
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This work is partially supported by the project CLARA—CLoud plAtform and smart underground imaging for natural Risk Assessment, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR-PON).
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Sapienza, A., Falcone, R. (2019). Social Recommendations: Have We Done Something Wrong?. In: Demazeau, Y., Matson, E., Corchado, J., De la Prieta, F. (eds) Advances in Practical Applications of Survivable Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11523. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24209-1_31
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