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Recommender Engines Under the Influence of Popularity

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Abstract

One often thinks that the use of Information Technologies brings an infinity of choices. However, Popularity still influences people in our free, pervasive and connected world. It is a reality: popular items keep power and weak items tend to be forgotten. Several studies demonstrated that this natural phenomenon is accentuated today with recommender engines. In this article we present a comparative study of 8 recommendation techniques. We also present a personal recommendation approach, based on items timeline. We unveil a Popularity Influence index, which evaluates the way recommender engines are influenced by the phenomenon. This experiment is led by a pool of interdisciplinary researchers, either or both epistemologists and computer scientists. It includes diverse examples and references from e-business, cultural studies or participatory democracy along with others. We believe that Popularity belongs to a wide set of fields. Therefore, we chose to run this experiment in an E-learning context, where we observe pieces of knowledge popularity.

Keywords

Preferential Attachment Collaborative Filter Link Prediction Recommendation Technique Information Cascade 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Guillaume Blot
    • 1
  • Pierre Saurel
    • 1
  • Francis Rousseaux
    • 2
  1. 1.SND FRE 3593Paris Sorbonne UniversityParisFrance
  2. 2.CRESTIC EA 3804Reims Champagne-Ardenne UniversityReimsFrance

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