scholarly journals Recommendation Systems: Algorithms, Challenges, Metrics, and Business Opportunities

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (21) ◽  
pp. 7748
Author(s):  
Zeshan Fayyaz ◽  
Mahsa Ebrahimian ◽  
Dina Nawara ◽  
Ahmed Ibrahim ◽  
Rasha Kashef

Recommender systems are widely used to provide users with recommendations based on their preferences. With the ever-growing volume of information online, recommender systems have been a useful tool to overcome information overload. The utilization of recommender systems cannot be overstated, given its potential influence to ameliorate many over-choice challenges. There are many types of recommendation systems with different methodologies and concepts. Various applications have adopted recommendation systems, including e-commerce, healthcare, transportation, agriculture, and media. This paper provides the current landscape of recommender systems research and identifies directions in the field in various applications. This article provides an overview of the current state of the art in recommendation systems, their types, challenges, limitations, and business adoptions. To assess the quality of a recommendation system, qualitative evaluation metrics are discussed in the paper.

Author(s):  
Faiz Maazouzi ◽  
Hafed Zarzour ◽  
Yaser Jararweh

With the enormous amount of information circulating on the Web, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find the necessary and useful information quickly and efficiently. However, with the emergence of recommender systems in the 1990s, reducing information overload became easy. In the last few years, many recommender systems employ the collaborative filtering technology, which has been proven to be one of the most successful techniques in recommender systems. Nowadays, the latest generation of collaborative filtering methods still requires further improvements to make the recommendations more efficient and accurate. Therefore, the objective of this article is to propose a new effective recommender system for TED talks that first groups users according to their preferences, and then provides a powerful mechanism to improve the quality of recommendations for users. In this context, the authors used the Pearson Correlation Coefficient (PCC) method and TED talks to create the TED user-user matrix. Then, they used the k-means clustering method to group the same users in clusters and create a predictive model. Finally, they used this model to make relevant recommendations to other users. The experimental results on real dataset show that their approach significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in terms of RMSE, precision, recall, and F1 scores.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1621-1651
Author(s):  
Bhupesh Rawat ◽  
Sanjay K. Dwivedi

Recommender systems have been used successfully in order to deal with information overload problems in a wide variety of domains ranging from e-commerce, e-tourism, to e-learning. They typically predict the ratings of unseen items by a user and recommend the top N items based on user's profile. Moreover, the profile can be enriched further by using additional information such as contextual data, domain knowledge, and tagging information among others for improving the quality of recommendations. Traditional approaches have not been effective in exploiting these additional data sources. Hence, new techniques need to be developed for extracting and integrating them into the recommendation process. In this article, the authors present a survey on state of the art recommendation approaches their algorithms, issues and also provides further research directions for developing smart and intelligent recommender systems.


Author(s):  
Sagarika Bakshi ◽  
Sweta Sarkar ◽  
Alok Kumar Jagadev ◽  
Satchidananda Dehuri

Recommender systems are applied in a multitude of spheres and have a significant role in reduction of information overload on those websites that have the features of voting. Therefore, it is an urgent need for them to adapt and respond to immediate changes in user preference. To overcome the shortcomings of each individual approach to design the recommender systems, a myriad of ways to coalesce different recommender systems are proposed by researchers. In this chapter, the authors have presented an insight into the design of recommender systems developed, namely content-based and collaborative recommendations, their evaluation, their lacunae, and some hybrid models to enhance the quality of prediction.


Author(s):  
Bhupesh Rawat ◽  
Sanjay K. Dwivedi

Recommender systems have been used successfully in order to deal with information overload problems in a wide variety of domains ranging from e-commerce, e-tourism, to e-learning. They typically predict the ratings of unseen items by a user and recommend the top N items based on user's profile. Moreover, the profile can be enriched further by using additional information such as contextual data, domain knowledge, and tagging information among others for improving the quality of recommendations. Traditional approaches have not been effective in exploiting these additional data sources. Hence, new techniques need to be developed for extracting and integrating them into the recommendation process. In this article, the authors present a survey on state of the art recommendation approaches their algorithms, issues and also provides further research directions for developing smart and intelligent recommender systems.


Author(s):  
Florian Kuisat ◽  
Fernando Lasagni ◽  
Andrés Fabián Lasagni

AbstractIt is well known that the surface topography of a part can affect its mechanical performance, which is typical in additive manufacturing. In this context, we report about the surface modification of additive manufactured components made of Titanium 64 (Ti64) and Scalmalloy®, using a pulsed laser, with the aim of reducing their surface roughness. In our experiments, a nanosecond-pulsed infrared laser source with variable pulse durations between 8 and 200 ns was applied. The impact of varying a large number of parameters on the surface quality of the smoothed areas was investigated. The results demonstrated a reduction of surface roughness Sa by more than 80% for Titanium 64 and by 65% for Scalmalloy® samples. This allows to extend the applicability of additive manufactured components beyond the current state of the art and break new ground for the application in various industrial applications such as in aerospace.


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 567
Author(s):  
Donghun Yang ◽  
Kien Mai Mai Ngoc ◽  
Iksoo Shin ◽  
Kyong-Ha Lee ◽  
Myunggwon Hwang

To design an efficient deep learning model that can be used in the real-world, it is important to detect out-of-distribution (OOD) data well. Various studies have been conducted to solve the OOD problem. The current state-of-the-art approach uses a confidence score based on the Mahalanobis distance in a feature space. Although it outperformed the previous approaches, the results were sensitive to the quality of the trained model and the dataset complexity. Herein, we propose a novel OOD detection method that can train more efficient feature space for OOD detection. The proposed method uses an ensemble of the features trained using the softmax-based classifier and the network based on distance metric learning (DML). Through the complementary interaction of these two networks, the trained feature space has a more clumped distribution and can fit well on the Gaussian distribution by class. Therefore, OOD data can be efficiently detected by setting a threshold in the trained feature space. To evaluate the proposed method, we applied our method to various combinations of image datasets. The results show that the overall performance of the proposed approach is superior to those of other methods, including the state-of-the-art approach, on any combination of datasets.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 387-399
Author(s):  
Noor Ifada ◽  
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Richi Nayak ◽  

The tag-based recommendation systems that are built based on tensor models commonly suffer from the data sparsity problem. In recent years, various weighted-learning approaches have been proposed to tackle such a problem. The approaches can be categorized by how a weighting scheme is used for exploiting the data sparsity – like employing it to construct a weighted tensor used for weighing the tensor model during the learning process. In this paper, we propose a new weighted-learning approach for exploiting data sparsity in tag-based item recommendation system. We introduce a technique to represent the users’ tag preferences for leveraging the weighted-learning approach. The key idea of the proposed technique comes from the fact that users use different choices of tags to annotate the same item while the same tag may be used to annotate various items in tag-based systems. This points out that users’ tag usage likeliness is different and therefore their tag preferences are also different. We then present three novel weighting schemes that are varied in manners by how the ordinal weighting values are used for labelling the users’ tag preferences. As a result, three weighted tensors are generated based on each scheme. To implement the proposed schemes for generating item recommendations, we develop a novel weighted-learning method called as WRank (Weighted Rank). Our experiments show that considering the users' tag preferences in the tensor-based weightinglearning approach can solve the data sparsity problem as well as improve the quality of recommendation.


Author(s):  
Brendan M. Hickey ◽  
Samuel T. Woo ◽  
Sally F. Shady

Lower limb deficiencies and below knee amputations are the most common form of deficiency that may arise from disease or trauma, and returning a patient close to a normal quality-of-life requires prosthetics, which can be quite challenging. Children present even further difficulty to prosthetists and physicians than adults. Although the underlying prosthetic principles for adults are the same for children, additional considerations must be made for practicality, such as downsizing while maintaining its degree of complexity, and frequent appointments to account for the rapid growth of an adolescent. This review article will evaluate the current state-of-the-art in the field of transtibial-amputee prosthetics, review the insurance coverage a typical family would face, and suggest potential improvements to children’s biomimetic prostheses that aid in reducing the frequency of health care provider intervention.


Author(s):  
S. Ranjith ◽  
P. Victer Paul

Data mining is an important field that derives insights from the data and recommendation systems. Recommendation systems have become common in recent years in the field of tourism. These are widely used as a tool that can input various selection criteria and user preferences and yields travel recommendations to tourists. User's style and preferences should be constructed accurately so as to supply most relevant suggestions. Researchers proposed various types of tourism recommendation systems (TRS) in order to improve the accuracy and user satisfaction. In this chapter, the authors studied the current state of tourism recommendation system models and discussed their preference criteria. As a part of that, the authors studied various important preference factors in TRS and categorized them based on their likeness. This chapter reports TRS model future directions and compiles a comprehensive reference list to assist researchers.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed S. Alqahtani ◽  
Abdulsalam Al-Tamimi ◽  
Henrique Almeida ◽  
Glen Cooper ◽  
Paulo Bartolo

Abstract Orthoses (exoskeletons and fracture fixation devices) enhance users’ ability to function and improve their quality of life by supporting alignment correction, restoring mobility, providing protection, immobilisation and stabilisation. Ideally, these devices should be personalised to each patient to improve comfort and performance. Production costs have been one of the main constraints for the production of personalised orthoses. However, customisation and personalisation of orthoses are now possible through the use of additive manufacturing. This paper presents the current state of the art of additive manufacturing for the fabrication of orthoses, providing several examples, and discusses key research challenges to be addressed to further develop this field.


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