KMulE: A Framework for User-based Comparison of Recommender Algorithms

Abstract

Collaborative filtering recommender systems come in a wide variety of variants. In this paper we present a system for visualizing and comparing recommendations provided by different collaborative recommendation algorithms. The system utilizes a set of context-aware, hybrid, and other collaborative filtering solutions in order to generate various recommendations from which its users can pick those corresponding best to their current situation (i.e. context). All user interaction is fed back to the system in order to additionally improve the quality of the recommendations. Additionally, users can explicitly ask the system to treat certain recommenders as more important than others, or disregard them completely if the list of recommended movies is not to their liking.

@inproceedings{Said:2012:KFU:2166966.2167034,
 author = {Said, Alan and De Luca, Ernesto William and Kille, Benjamin and Jain, Brijnesh and Micus, Immo and Albayrak, Sahin},
 title = {KMulE: a framework for user-based comparison of recommender algorithms},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2012 ACM international conference on Intelligent User Interfaces},
 series = {IUI '12},
 year = {2012},
 isbn = {978-1-4503-1048-2},
 location = {Lisbon, Portugal},
 pages = {323--324},
 numpages = {2},
 url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2166966.2167034},
 doi = {10.1145/2166966.2167034},
 acmid = {2167034},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 keywords = {analysis, context-awareness, evaluation, human factors, movie recommendation, personalization, recommender systems, user-centric evaluation},
}

Authors:

Alan Said, Ernesto William De Luca, Benjamin Kille, Brijnesh Jain, Immo Micus, Sahin Albayrak

Category:

Demo Paper

Year:

2012

Location:

Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (IUI'12)