An Artificial Immune System Based Recommender
The immune system is a complex biological system with a highly distributed, adaptive and self-organising nature. This paper presents an artificial immune system (AIS) that exploits some of these characteristics and is applied to the task of film recommendation by collaborative filtering (CF). Natura...
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| author | Cayzer, Steve Aickelin, Uwe |
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| description | The immune system is a complex biological system with a highly distributed, adaptive and self-organising nature. This paper presents an artificial immune system (AIS) that exploits some of these characteristics and is applied to the task of film recommendation by collaborative filtering (CF). Natural evolution and in particular the immune system have not been designed for classical optimisation. However, for this problem, we are not interested in finding a single optimum. Rather we intend to identify a sub-set of good matches on which recommendations can be based. It is our hypothesis that an AIS built on two central aspects of the biological immune system will be an ideal candidate to achieve this: Antigen - antibody interaction for matching and antibody - antibody interaction for diversity. Computational results are presented in support of this conjecture and compared to those found by other CF techniques. Notes: Uwe Aickelin, University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK |
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| spelling | nottingham-6492020-05-04T20:32:20Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/649/ An Artificial Immune System Based Recommender Cayzer, Steve Aickelin, Uwe The immune system is a complex biological system with a highly distributed, adaptive and self-organising nature. This paper presents an artificial immune system (AIS) that exploits some of these characteristics and is applied to the task of film recommendation by collaborative filtering (CF). Natural evolution and in particular the immune system have not been designed for classical optimisation. However, for this problem, we are not interested in finding a single optimum. Rather we intend to identify a sub-set of good matches on which recommendations can be based. It is our hypothesis that an AIS built on two central aspects of the biological immune system will be an ideal candidate to achieve this: Antigen - antibody interaction for matching and antibody - antibody interaction for diversity. Computational results are presented in support of this conjecture and compared to those found by other CF techniques. Notes: Uwe Aickelin, University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK 2002 Article PeerReviewed Cayzer, Steve and Aickelin, Uwe (2002) An Artificial Immune System Based Recommender. Research Report HPL-2002-1, HP Labs, Bristol . |
| spellingShingle | Cayzer, Steve Aickelin, Uwe An Artificial Immune System Based Recommender |
| title | An Artificial Immune System Based Recommender |
| title_full | An Artificial Immune System Based Recommender |
| title_fullStr | An Artificial Immune System Based Recommender |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Artificial Immune System Based Recommender |
| title_short | An Artificial Immune System Based Recommender |
| title_sort | artificial immune system based recommender |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/649/ |