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Accuracy measures such as Recall, Precision, and Hit Rate have been a standard way of evaluating Recommendation Systems. The assumption is to use a fixed Top-N to represent them. We propose that median impressions viewed from historical…
American local newspapers have been experiencing a large loss of reader retention and business within the past 15 years due to the proliferation of online news sources. Local media companies are starting to shift from an…
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Social recommendation is effective in improving the recommendation performance by leveraging social relations from online social networking platforms. Social relations among users provide friends' information for modeling users' interest in…
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Social recommendation system is to predict unobserved user-item rating values by taking advantage of user-user social relation and user-item ratings. However, user/item diversities in social recommendations are not well utilized in the…
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