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Recommender systems help users to identify particular items that best match their tastes or preferences. When we apply the agent theory to this domain, a standard centralized recommender system becomes a distributed world of recommender agents. Therefore, due to the agent’s world, a new information filtering method appears: the opinion-based filtering method. Its main idea is to consider other agents as personal entities which you can rely on or not. Recommender agents can ask their reliable friends for an opinion about a particular item and filter large sets of items based on it. Reliability is expressed through a trust value with which each agent labels its neighbors. Thus, the opinion-based filtering method needs a model of trust in the collaborative world. The model proposed emphasizes proactiveness since the agent looks for other agents in a situation of lack of information instead of remaining passive or providing either a negative or empty answer to the user. Finally, our social model of trust exploits interactiveness while preserving privacy.
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Montaner, M., López, B., de la Rosa, J.L. (2002). Opinion-Based Filtering through Trust. In: Klusch, M., Ossowski, S., Shehory, O. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents VI. CIA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2446. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45741-0_15
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