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Recommender Systems (RS) are applications that provide personalized advice to users about products or services they might be interested in. To improve recommendation quality, many hybridization techniques have been proposed. Among all hybrids, the weighted recommenders have the main benefit that all of the system’s constituents operate independently and stand in a straightforward way over the recommendation process. However, the hybrids proposed so far consist of a linear combination of the final scores resulting from all recommendation techniques available. Thus, they fail to provide explanations of predictions or further insights into the data. In this work, we propose a theoretical framework to combine information using the two basic probabilistic schemes: the sum and product rule. Extensive experiments have shown that our purely probabilistic schemes provide better quality recommendations compared to other methods that combine numerical scores derived from each prediction method individually.
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Rousidis, I., Tzagkarakis, G., Plexousakis, D., Tzitzikas, Y. (2008). On a Probabilistic Combination of Prediction Sources. In: An, A., Matwin, S., Raś, Z.W., Ślęzak, D. (eds) Foundations of Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4994. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68123-6_58
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