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A Hybrid Recommender System for Service Discovery

Abstract

In this paper, a recommender system for service discovery is presented. It helps the consumers of service-oriented environment to discover and select the most appropriate services from a large number of available ones. The recommender system uses the switching hybrid method, and combines two methods of collaborative filtering and context-aware. The collaborative filtering method uses the known taste of a group of users to produce recommendation to other users. The Context-aware method provides recommendations to the users regarding their environment and the details of the situation in which they are. The proposed approach is yielded to overcome the problem of grey sheep, new consumer, and new service entrance to Collaborative Filtering Recommender system.

Atefeh Jajvand, Mir Ali Seyyedi, Afshin Salajegheh

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