4.6 Article

A Collaborative Filtering Algorithm with Intragroup Divergence for POI Group Recommendation

Journal

APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
Volume 11, Issue 12, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app11125416

Keywords

POI group recommendation; intragroup divergence; group feature vector construction; location-based social network

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [61806083, 61872158]
  2. Excellent Young Talents Program for the Department of Science and Technology of Jilin Province of China [20190103051JH]

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A POI group recommendation method based on collaborative filtering with intragroup divergence is proposed in this paper. The method improves recommendation precision by constructing user preference vectors, calculating preference degrees, establishing feature preference models, measuring intragroup divergence, and computing preference ratings. Experimental results show the superior performance of the proposed method.
The purpose of POI group recommendation is to generate a recommendation list of locations for a group of users. Most of the current studies first conduct personal recommendation and then use recommendation strategies to integrate individual recommendation results. Few studies consider the divergence of groups. To improve the precision of recommendations, we propose a POI group recommendation method based on collaborative filtering with intragroup divergence in this paper. Firstly, user preference vector is constructed based on the preference of the user on time and category. Furthermore, a computation method similar to TF-IDF is presented to compute the degree of preference of the user to the category. Secondly, we establish a group feature preference model, and the similarity of the group and other users' feature preference is obtained based on the check-ins. Thirdly, the intragroup divergence of POIs is measured according to the POI preference of group members and their friends. Finally, the preference rating of the group for each location is calculated based on a collaborative filtering method and intragroup divergence computation, and the top-ranked score of locations are the recommendation results for the group. Experiments have been conducted on two LBSN datasets, and the experimental results on precision and recall show that the performance of the proposed method is superior to other methods.

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