Clustering-based recommender system: Bundle recommendation using matrix factorization to single user and user communities

Abstract

This paper shows the results of a Recommender System (RS) that suggests bundles of items to a user or a community of users. Nowadays, there are several RS that realize suggestions of a unique item considering the preferences of a user. However, these RS are not scalable and sometimes the suggestions that make are far from a user’s preferences. We propose an RS that suggests bundles of items to one user or a community of users with similar affinities. This RS uses an algorithm based on Matrix Factorization (MF). To execute the experiments, we use released databases with high dispersion. The results obtained are evaluated per the metrics Accuracy, Precision, Recall and F-measure. The results demonstrate that the proposed method improves significantly the quality of the suggestions.