Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5011422 | Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation | 2017 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
Weighted rating networks are commonly used by e-commerce providers nowadays. In order to generate an objective ranking of online items' quality according to users' ratings, many sophisticated algorithms have been proposed in the complex networks domain. In this paper, instead of proposing new algorithms we focus on a more fundamental problem: the nonlinear rating projection. The basic idea is that even though the rating values given by users are linearly separated, the real preference of users to items between the different given values is nonlinear. We thus design an approach to project the original ratings of users to more representative values. This approach can be regarded as a data pretreatment method. Simulation in both artificial and real networks shows that the performance of the ranking algorithms can be improved when the projected ratings are used.
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Authors
Hao Liao, An Zeng, Mingyang Zhou, Rui Mao, Bing-Hong Wang,