A fusion multi-criteria collaborative filtering algorithm for hotel recommendations
by Qusai Y. Shambour; Mosleh M. Abualhaj; Qasem M. Kharma; Faris M. Taweel
International Journal of Computing Science and Mathematics (IJCSM), Vol. 16, No. 4, 2022

Abstract: Recommender systems employ information filtering techniques to mitigate the problem of generating personalised recommendations in a digital world that is heavily overloaded with information. Recently, the tourism industry becomes more and more popular and the number of online hotel booking sites with search engines has been growing. However, using such sites can be time consuming and burdensome for potential travellers. Accordingly, this paper proposes a fusion multi-criteria user-item collaborative filtering (MC-UICF) recommendation algorithm that exploits the multi-criteria ratings of users and integrates MC user-based CF and MC item-based CF techniques to produce personalised hotel recommendations. Experimental results on two real-world multi-criteria datasets show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm by outperforming other baseline single-criteria and multi-criteria CF recommendation approaches in terms of recommendation accuracy and coverage, in particular, when dealing with sparse datasets.

Online publication date: Wed, 01-Feb-2023

The full text of this article is only available to individual subscribers or to users at subscribing institutions.

 
Existing subscribers:
Go to Inderscience Online Journals to access the Full Text of this article.

Pay per view:
If you are not a subscriber and you just want to read the full contents of this article, buy online access here.

Complimentary Subscribers, Editors or Members of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Computing Science and Mathematics (IJCSM):
Login with your Inderscience username and password:

Username:        Password:          Forgotten your password?

Want to subscribe?
A subscription gives you complete access to all articles in the current issue, as well as to all articles in the previous three years (where applicable). See our Orders page to subscribe.

If you still need assistance, please email subs@inderscience.com