Device and method for automatic generation of a recommendation

摘要

The invention refers to a device and a method for automatic generation of recommendation for an item p to a user u. The device comprises or is at least indirectly connected to an item database containing a user profile database and a user interrelation database. The device comprises a standard recommender engine that is configured to access said item database and said user profile database and to calculate a score s(p,u) in a [0,1] interval indicating a "like" degree of an item p for user u based on a user profile of user u. The device further comprises a content discovery recommender that is configured to access said user interrelation database and to find at least users v that have a direct connection to user u and to further access said user profile database in order to determine a fraction of the users v that know an item p and to generate a recommendation based on the score s(p,u) of an item p and the extent (that is the fraction of the users v that know an item p ) the item is known among users v that have a direct connection to user u .