A decentralized CF approach based on cooperative agents

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we propose a decentralized collaborative filtering (CF) approach based on P2P overlay network for the autonomous agents' environment. Experiments show that our approach is more scalable than traditional centralized CF filtering systems and alleviates the sparsity problem in distributed CF.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval
          Subjects: Information filtering

General Terms:
Algorithms, Experimentation, Performance

Keywords:
P2P system, distributed collaborative filtering, friend network