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Recommendation systems have received significant attention, with most of the proposed methods focusing on personal recommendations. However, there are contexts in which the items to be suggested are not intended for a single user but for a group of people. For example, assume a group of friends or a family that is planning to watch a movie or visit a restaurant. In this paper, we propose an extensive model for group recommendations that exploits recommendations for items that similar users to the group members liked in the past. We do not exhaustively search for similar users in the whole user base, but we pre-partition users into clusters of similar ones and use the cluster members for recommendations. We efficiently aggregate the single user recommendations into group recommendations by leveraging the power of a top-k algorithm. We evaluate our approach in a real dataset of movie ratings.
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Ntoutsi, E., Stefanidis, K., Nørvåg, K., Kriegel, HP. (2012). Fast Group Recommendations by Applying User Clustering. In: Atzeni, P., Cheung, D., Ram, S. (eds) Conceptual Modeling. ER 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7532. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34002-4_10
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