Section: New Software and Platforms

MultiSite-Rec

Participants : Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Florent Masseglia, Esther Pacitti.

URL: https://code.google.com/p/multi-site-rec/

Recommender systems are used as a mean to supply users with content that may be of interest to them. They have become a popular research topic, where many aspects and dimensions have been studied to make them more accurate and effective. In practice, recommender systems suffer from cold-start problems. However, users use many online services, which can provide information about their interest and the content of items (e.g. Google search engine, Facebook, Twitter, etc). These services may be valuable data sources, which supply information to help a recommender system in modeling users and items’ preferences, and thus, make the recommender system more precise. Moreover, these data sources are distributed, and geographically distant from each other, which raise many research problems and challenges to design a distributed recommendation algorithm. MultiSite-Rec is a distributed collaborative filtering algorithm, which exploits and combine these multiple and heterogeneous data sources to improve the recommendation quality.