Evaluation of Cascade Recommendation Methods

Abstract

The experimental results provided in this chapter correspond to the testing stage of our system. The evaluation process compared three recommendation approaches: (a) the standard Collaborative Filtering methodologies, (b) the Cascade Content-based Recommendation methodology and (c) the Cascade Hybrid Recommendation methodology. To evaluate our system, we tested its performance as a RS for music files. In the following sections of this chapter, a detailed description is provided of the three types of experiments that were conducted in order to evaluate the efficiency of our cascade recommendation architecture.