• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.298-305
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• 2009

In contrast to content_based filtering systems, collaborative filtering systems not only don't contain information of items, they can not recommend items when users don't provide the information of their interests. In this paper, we propose the recommender agent using association item tree to solve the shortcomings of collaborative filtering systems. Firstly, the proposed method clusters users into groups using vector space model and K-means algorithm and selects group typical rating values. Secondly, the degree of associations between items is extracted from computing mutual information between items and an associative item tree is generated by group. Finally, the method recommends items to an active user by using a group typical rating value and an association item tree. The recommender agent recommends items by combining user information with item information. In addition, it can accurately recommend items to an active user, whose information is insufficient at first rate, by using an association item tree based on mutual information for the similarity between items. The proposed method is compared with previous methods on the data set of MovieLens recommender system.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.119-140
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• 2007

Recommender systems enable a user to decide which information is interesting and valuable in our world of information overload. As the recent studies of distributed computing environment have been progressing actively, recommender systems, most of which were centralized, have changed toward a peer-to-peer approach. Collaborative Filtering (CF), one of the most successful technologies in recommender systems, presents several limitations, namely sparsity, scalability, cold start, and the shilling problem, in spite of its popularity. The move from centralized systems to distributed approaches can partially improve the issues; distrust of recommendation and abuses of personal information. However, distributed systems can be vulnerable to attackers, who may inject biased profiles to force systems to adapt their objectives. In this paper, we consider both effective CF in P2P environment in order to improve overall performance of system and efficient solution of the problems related to abuses of personal data and attacks of malicious users. To deal with these issues, we propose a multi-agent framework for a distributed CF focusing on the trust relationships between individuals, i.e. web of trust. We employ an agent-based approach to improve the efficiency of distributed computing and propagate trust information among users with effect. The experimental evaluation shows that the proposed method brings significant improvement in terms of the distributed computing of similarity model building and the robustness of system against malicious attacks. Finally, we are planning to study trust propagation mechanisms by taking trust decay problem into consideration.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.333-338
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• 2006

최근 사용자에 대한 많은 정보를 얻는 것이 가능해지면서, 데이터마이닝 기법이나 Contents 추천 기법을 이용한 맞춤형 서비스가 가능하게 되었다. 특히, 대부분의 사람들에게 TV 프로그램 시청은 여가생활시간에서 가장 높은 비중을 차지 하고 있다. 따라서, 보다 지능적인 TV 프로그램 서비스를 제공하는 기술에 대하여 관심이 고조되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 TV-Anytime을 이용하여 개인화된 Electronic Program Guide (EPG)를 생성하고, 개인화된 EPG 정보를 활용하여 시청자에게 맞춤형 TV 프로그램 서비스를 제공하는 시스템에 대한 연구 결과를 제시한다. 또한 시청자의 시청패턴과 TV 프로그램 선호도를 바탕으로 시청자가 원하는 프로그램을 추천하는 TV Program Recommender Agent와 방송 및 TV 프로그램에 대한 대화를 담당하는 TV Program Helper Agent, 시스템 조정 및 메시지 전달을 담당하는 Coordinator Agent로 이루어진 멀티에이전트 기반 시스템 구조를 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.127-130
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• 2006

소비자가 최적의 상품을 선택하기 위해서는 충분한 상품정보를 파악하여 상품정보를 일일이 조사해야하는 번거로움이 생긴다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 여러 가지 상품추천방법이 제안되고 있으나 상품추천 과정에서 고객의 기호 변화를 다루는 연구가 부족하다. 본 논문에서는 소비자의 기호 변화에 적응하는 개인화 된 상품 추천을 위하여 베이지안 네트워크를 모델링하여 상품 구매에 따르는 선호도를 분석하고, 추천된 상품에 대한 사용자의 행동으로 관심 정도를 측정하여 추천 리스트를 제공한다.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.181-201
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• 2006

As the Internet spreads, many people have interests in e-CRM and product recommender systems, one of e-CRM applications. Among various approaches for recommendation, collaborative filtering and content-based approaches have been investigated and applied widely. Despite their popularity, traditional recommendation approaches have some limitations. They require at least one purchase transaction per user. In addition, they don't utilize much information such as demographic and specific personal profile information. This study suggests new hybrid recommendation model using two data mining techniques, association rule and classification, as well as intelligent agent to overcome these limitations. To validate the usefulness of the model, it was applied to the real case and the prototype web site was developed. We assessed the usefulness of the suggested recommendation model through online survey. The result of the survey showed that the information of the recommendation was generally useful to the survey participants.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.342-351
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• 2002

A personalized product recommendation is an enabling mechanism to overcome information overload occurred when shopping in an Internet marketplace. Collaborative filtering has been known to be one of the most successful recommendation methods, but its application to e-commerce has exposed well-known limitations such as sparsity and scalability, which would lead to poor recommendations. This paper suggests a personalized recommendation methodology by which we are able to get further effectiveness and quality of recommendations when applied to an Internet shopping mall. The suggested methodology is based on a variety of data mining techniques such as web usage mining, decision tree induction, association rule mining and the product taxonomy. For the evaluation of the methodology, we implement a recommender system using intelligent agent and data warehousing technologies.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.174-188
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• 2004

In the life environment changed with not only the quality and the price of the products but also the material abundance, it is the most crucial factor for the strategy of product sales to investigate consumer's sensibility and preference degree. In this perspective, it is necessary to design and merchandise the products in cope with each consumer's sensibility and needs as well as its functional aspects. In this paper, we propose the Fashion Design Recommender Agent System (FDRAS-pro) for textile design applying collaborative filtering personalization technique as one of the methods of material development centered on consumer's sensibility and preference. For a collaborative filtering system based on textile, Representative-Attribute Neighborhood is adopted to determine the number or neighbors that will be used for preferences estimation. Pearson's Correlation Coefficient is used to calculate similarity weights among users. We build a database founded on the sensibility adjectives to develop textile designs by extracting the representative sensibility adjectives from users' sensibility and preferences about textile designs. FDRAS-pro recommends textile designs to a customer who has a similar propensity about textile. To investigate the sensibility and emotion according to the effect of design factors, fertile designs were analyzed in terms of 9 design factors, such as, motif source, motif-background ratio, motif variation, motif interpretation, motif arrangement, motif articulation, hue contrast, value contrast, chroma contrast. Finally, we plan to conduct empirical applications to verify the adequacy and the validity of our system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.224-228
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• 2002

제품의 품질 및 가격 뿐만 아니라 물질적 풍요로움과 더불어 다변화 되어가는 생활 환경 속에서 소비자의 감성과 선호도를 파악하는 것은 제품 판매 전략의 중요한 성공요소가 되고 있다. 이를 위하여 제품의 기능적 측면 뿐만 아니라 개개인의 정서적 감정과 선호도가 반영된 제품의 설계나 디자인 또한 요구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 소재 개발의 프로세스가 고객 중심으로 변화하는 것에 대응하여 사용자의 감성과 선호도를 중심으로 소재를 개발하는 방법의 하나로 협력적 필터링 개인화 기법을 응용하여 섬유 패션 디자인 추천 시스템을 제안한다. Textile 기반의 협력적 필터링 시스템에서 예측에 사용될 이웃의 수를 결정하기 위해서 Representative Attribute-Neighborhood를 사용한다. 이웃들간의 사용자 유사도 가중치는 피어슨 상관 계수(Pearson Correlation Coefficient)를 사용한다. 소재에 대한 사용자의 감성이나 선호도에 대한 Textile의 대표 감성 형용사를 추출함으로써 소재 개발을 위한 감성 형용사 데이터 베이스를 구축한다. 구축된 감성 형용사 데이터 베이스를 기반으로 성향이 비슷한 사용자에게 Textile을 추천한다. 사용자 선호도 예측과 Textile 기반의 협력적 필터링 기술을 이용한 섬유 패션 디자인 추천 에이전트를 구축하여 시스템의 논리적 타당성과 유효성을 검증하기 위해 실험적인 적용을 시도하고자 한다.