Context-aware personalization using neighborhood-based context similarity

OTEBOLAKU, Abayomi and ANDRADE, MT (2016). Context-aware personalization using neighborhood-based context similarity. Wireless Personal Communications, 94 (3), 1595-1618.

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Official URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11277-0...
Link to published version:: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-016-3701-2

Abstract

With the overwhelming volume of online multimedia content and increasing ubiquity of Internet-enabled mobile devices, pervasive use of the Web for content sharing and consumption has become our everyday routines. Consequently, people seeking online access to content of interest are becoming more and more frustrated. Thus, deciding which content to consume among the deluge of available alternatives becomes increasingly difficult. Context-aware personalization, having the capability to predict user’s contextual preferences, has been proposed as an effective solution. However, some existing personalized systems, especially those based on collaborative filtering, rely on rating information explicitly obtained from users in consumption contexts. Therefore, these systems suffer from the so-called cold-start problem that occurs as a result of personalization systems’ lack of adequate knowledge of either a new user’s preferences or of a new item rating information. This happens because these new items and users have not received or provided adequate rating information respectively. In this paper, we present an analysis and design of a context-aware personalized system capable of minimizing new user cold-start problem in a mobile multimedia consumption scenario. The article emphasizes the importance of similarity between contexts of consumption based on the traditional k-nearest neighbor algorithm using Pearson Correlation model. Experimental validation, with respect to quality of personalized recommendations and user satisfaction in both contextual and non-contextual scenarios, shows that the proposed system can mitigate the effect of user-based cold-start problem.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Context-awareness; Personalization; Context similarity; Mobile users; Cold-start problem; Mobile devices; Networking & Telecommunications; 0805 Distributed Computing; 1005 Communications Technologies; 0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-016-3701-2
Page Range: 1595-1618
SWORD Depositor: Symplectic Elements
Depositing User: Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited: 07 Jan 2020 16:27
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2021 02:54
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/24431

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