Fuzzy-Bayesian network approach to genre-based recommender systems

The World Wide Web has created a new media for mass marketing that can also be highly customized to online customers´ needs and expectations. Recommender Systems (RS) play an important role in this area. Here, we aim to establish a genre-based collaborative RS to automatically suggest and rank a list of appropriate items (movies) to a user based on the user profile and the past voting patterns of other users with similar tastes. The contribution of this paper is using genre based information in a hybrid fuzzy-Bayesian network collaborative RS. The interest to the different genres is computed based on a hybrid user model. The similarity of like-minded users according to the fuzzy distance and also Pearson correlation coefficient is involved in a Bayesian network.