A Context-aware and Social Graph based Restaurant Recommender System for Mobile Devices
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Guo, Yi-Cheng
Abstract
With the increasing popularity of mobile devices and mobile networks, people can get a soaring amount of information, anywhere, anytime. How to solve the problem of the current information overload and provide personalized recommendation services is an important research topic. This thesis exploits the check-ins of Facebook Open Graph to design a mobile restaurant recommender system, which is based on collaborative filtering. The system summarizes the group preferences from individual users check-in in order to provide group recommendation services. Furthermore, the system considers social graph and contextual information to enhance the recommendation quality. These contextual information includes location, distance, age, sex index, time of day, weekday, month, number of companion and type of companion. In this thesis, we also proposed a method to evaluate the impact of location and distance context.
Our experimental data is collected from the 69 volunteers in Facebook, which includes the 8264 check-ins. These check-ins are contributed by 3928 users in 2691 different restaurants from 2010/8/15 to 2012/4/30. The experimental results reveal that the accuracy of our system can be increased by approximately 38% while suggest restaurants within the area of 3-5 km radius, compared to popularity-based recommendation. It means that the proposed system can provide better recommendations than popularity-based recommendations, if the user asks for a restaurant suggestion in a larger area.
Our experimental data is collected from the 69 volunteers in Facebook, which includes the 8264 check-ins. These check-ins are contributed by 3928 users in 2691 different restaurants from 2010/8/15 to 2012/4/30. The experimental results reveal that the accuracy of our system can be increased by approximately 38% while suggest restaurants within the area of 3-5 km radius, compared to popularity-based recommendation. It means that the proposed system can provide better recommendations than popularity-based recommendations, if the user asks for a restaurant suggestion in a larger area.
Subjects
Recommender System
Restaurant Recommender
Group Recommendation
Collaborative Filtering
Social Graph
Context-awareness
Mobile Device
Type
thesis
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