Clustering-based Hybrid Filtering Algorithm

Recommender systems help consumers to find the useful products from the overloaded information. Researchers have developed content-based recommenders, collaborative recommenders, and a few hybrid systems. In this research, we extend the classic collaborative recommenders by clustering method to form a hybrid recommender system. Using the clustering method, we can recommend the products based on not only the user ratings but also other useful information from user profiles or attributes of items. Through our experiments on well-known MovieLens data set, we found that the information provided by the attributes of item on the item-based collaborative filter shows advantage over the information provided by user profiles on the user-based collaborative filter.