A new approach for collaborative filtering based on mining frequent itemsets

Abstract

As one of the most successful approaches to building recommender systems, collaborative filtering (CF) uses the known preferences of a group of users to make recommendations or predictions of the unknown preferences for other users. In this paper, we first propose a new CF model-based approach which has been implemented by basing on mining frequent itemsets technique with the assumption that "The larger the support of an item is, the higher it's likely that this item will occur in some frequent itemset, is". We then present the enhanced techniques such as the followings: bits representations, bits matching as well bits mining in order to speeding-up the algorithm processing with CF method. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.