EvoRecSys: Evolutionary framework for health and well-being recommender systems

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Abstract

In recent years, recommender systems have been employed in domains like e-commerce, tourism, and multimedia streaming, where personalising users’ experience based on their interactions is a fundamental aspect to consider. Recent recommender system developments have also focused on well-being, yet existing solutions have been entirely designed considering one single well-being aspect in isolation, such as a healthy diet or an active lifestyle. This research introduces EvoRecSys, a novel recommendation framework that proposes evolutionary algorithms as the main recommendation engine, thereby modelling the problem of generating personalised well-being recommendations as a multi-objective optimisation problem. EvoRecSys captures the interrelation between multiple aspects of well-being by constructing configurable recommendations in the form of bundled items with dynamic properties. The preferences and a predefined well-being goal by the user are jointly considered. By instantiating the framework into an implemented model, we illustrate the use of a genetic algorithm as the recommendation engine. Finally, this implementation has been deployed as a Web application in order to conduct a users’ study.

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Alcaraz-Herrera, H., Cartlidge, J., Toumpakari, Z., Western, M., & Palomares, I. (2022). EvoRecSys: Evolutionary framework for health and well-being recommender systems. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 32(5), 883–921. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11257-021-09318-3

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