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Matching Users' Preference Under Target Revenue Constraints in Optimal Data Recommendation Systems
This paper focuses on the problem of finding a particular data recommendation
strategy based on the user preferences and a system expected revenue. To this
end, we formulate this problem as an optimization by designing the
recommendation mechanism as close to the user behavior as possible with a
certain revenue constraint. In fact, the optimal recommendation distribution is
the one that is the closest to the utility distribution in the sense of
relative entropy and satisfies expected revenue. We show that the optimal
recommendation distribution follows the same form as the message importance
measure (MIM) if the target revenue is reasonable, i.e., neither too small nor
too large. Therefore, the optimal recommendation distribution can be regarded
as the normalized MIM, where the parameter, called importance coefficient,
presents the concern of the system and switches the attention of the system
over data sets with different occurring probability. By adjusting the
importance coefficient, our MIM based framework of data recommendation can then
be applied to system with various system requirements and data
distributions.Therefore,the obtained results illustrate the physical meaning of
MIM from the data recommendation perspective and validate the rationality of
MIM in one aspect.Comment: 36 pages, 6 figure
Discovering the Impact of Knowledge in Recommender Systems: A Comparative Study
Recommender systems engage user profiles and appropriate filtering techniques
to assist users in finding more relevant information over the large volume of
information. User profiles play an important role in the success of
recommendation process since they model and represent the actual user needs.
However, a comprehensive literature review of recommender systems has
demonstrated no concrete study on the role and impact of knowledge in user
profiling and filtering approache. In this paper, we review the most prominent
recommender systems in the literature and examine the impression of knowledge
extracted from different sources. We then come up with this finding that
semantic information from the user context has substantial impact on the
performance of knowledge based recommender systems. Finally, some new clues for
improvement the knowledge-based profiles have been proposed.Comment: 14 pages, 3 tables; International Journal of Computer Science &
Engineering Survey (IJCSES) Vol.2, No.3, August 201
PERSONALIZED SERVICES AS EMPATHIC RESPONSES: THE ROLE OF INTIMACY
Personalization that uses information technology to tailor content and products/services to the preferences and tastes of individual customers has become a useful function for online marketing. Many techniques have been developed, and research on personalized services has increased substantially in recent years. Several theories have been proposed to explain the effect of positive consumer attitude toward personalized services such as reducing information overload and the Elaboration Likelihood Model. These theories are grounded on a rational perspective. As personalization can be treated as an empathic response to the service receivers, we cannot ignore the role of emotion in a relationship building process. In this paper, we propose the relationship building (or Guanxi in Chinese) perspective in investigating the effectiveness of personalization, which treats intimate experience resulting from personalized response as an important factor to affect the receivers’ attitude towards the personalized recommendation. We conducted a controlled laboratory experiment on personalized recommendation to examine the role of intimacy in affecting consumer attitudes. Our findings indicated that intimate experience does mediate the effect of personalized response on consumer attitudes toward the recommendation. The results and findings provide valuable information to practitioners and researchers
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