Conceptual framework of recommendation system with hybrid method

Abstract

Recommendation system relies on information of user preference and user behavior in order to recommend the useful information. The existing recommendation systems still have problems for new users and new items. This research proposes a new hybrid method to develop the conceptual framework of recommendation system that deals with new user and new movie data. The data used consists of a data from MovieLens and the internet movie database (IMDB). This work introduces a hybrid recommendation system which based on a combination of content-based filtering (CBF) and collaborative filtering (CF). Pre-filtering data is performed by finding an optimal number of clusters by calculating the total within cluster sum of square. In order to reduce the complexity of data and increase the relevance of the user-item ratings, the fuzzy c-mean (FCM) is employed. Then the similarity is calculated by using item-based method, the K-nearest neighbors and weight sum of the rating are applied. Finally, to recommend the movies, the research found that for new user data the precision is at 85% and mean absolute eror (MAE) value 2.1011. For new item data, the result of research obtains the precision at 87% and MAE value 2.0031. In conclusion, the new hybrid method developed can recommend movie efficiently.