REBECCA: A trust-based filtering to improve recommendations for B2C e-commerce

Abstract

Recommender systems usually support B2C e-Commerce activities without to provide e-buyers with information about the reputation of both products and interlocutors. To provide B2C traders with suggestions taking into account gossips, in this paper we present REBECCA, a fully decentralized trust-based B2C recommender system that also guarantees scalability and privacy. Some experiments show the advantages introduced by REBECCA in generating more effective suggestions. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.