Enabling a recommendation system to provide user-to-user recommendations

摘要

A computerized method and corresponding means for rating an item within a recommendation system. In a recommendation scheme, each of a multitude of users U and each of a multitude of items I is included in a profile P(U,I) that comprises ratings. Based on the similarity between a given user and the multitude of users in terms of the ratings, a subset of users is selected who have interest similar to those of the given user.