Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
388653 Expert Systems with Applications 2010 12 Pages PDF
Abstract

With the rapid growth of the World Wide Web (www), finding useful information from the Internet has become a critical issue. Web recommender systems help users make decisions in this complex information space where the volume of information available to them is huge. Recently, a number of Web page recommender systems have been developed to extract the user behavior from the user’s navigational path and predict the next request as s/he visits Web pages. However, each of these systems has its own merits and limitations. In this paper, we investigate a hybrid recommender system, which combines the results of several recommender techniques based on Web usage mining. We conduct a detailed comparative evaluation of how different combined methods and different recommendation techniques affect the prediction accuracy of the hybrid recommender. We then discuss the results in terms of using a hybrid recommender system instead of a single recommender model. Our results suggest that the hybrid recommender system is better in predicting the next request of a Web user.

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