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A Cascade-Hybrid Music Recommender System for mobile services based on musical genre classification and personality diagnosis

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In this paper, we present a Cascade-Hybrid Music Recommender System intended to operate as a mobile service. Specifically, our system is a middleware that realizes the recommendation process based on a combination of music genre classification and personality diagnosis. A mobile user is able to query for music files by simply sending an example music file from his/her mobile device. In response to the user query, the system recommends music files that not only belong to the same genre as the user query, but also an attempt has been made to take into account both the user preferences as well as ratings from other users for candidate results. The recommendation mechanism is realized by applying the collaborative filtering technique of personality diagnosis. Using the minimum absolute error and the ranked scoring criteria, our approach is compared to existing recommendation techniques that rely on either collaborative filtering or content-based approaches. The outcome of the comparison clearly indicates that our approach exhibits significantly higher performance.

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    Aristomenis S. Lampropoulos, Paraskevi S. Lampropoulou & George A. Tsihrintzis

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Lampropoulos, A.S., Lampropoulou, P.S. & Tsihrintzis, G.A. A Cascade-Hybrid Music Recommender System for mobile services based on musical genre classification and personality diagnosis. Multimed Tools Appl 59, 241–258 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-011-0742-0

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