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User evaluation of a market-based recommender system

User evaluation of a market-based recommender system
User evaluation of a market-based recommender system
Recommender systems have been developed for a wide variety of applications (ranging from books, to holidays, to web pages). These systems have used a number of different approaches, since no one technique is best for all users in all situations. Given this, we believe that to be effective, systems should incorporate a wide variety of such techniques and then some form of overarching framework should be put in place to coordinate them so that only the best recommendations (from whatever source) are presented to the user. To this end, in our previous work, we detailed a market-based approach in which various recommender agents competed with one another to present their recommendations to the user. We showed through theoretical analysis and empirical evaluation with simulated users that an appropriately designed marketplace should be able to provide effective coordination. Building on this, we now report on the development of this multi-agent system and its evaluation with real users. Specifically, we show that our system is capable of consistently giving high quality recommendations, that the best recommendations that could be put forward are actually put forward, and that the combination of recommenders performs better than any constituent recommender
recommender systems, auctions, marketplace, user evaluation
1387-2532
251-269
Wei, Yan Zheng
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Jennings, Nicholas R.
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Moreau, Luc
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Hall, Wendy
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Wei, Yan Zheng
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Jennings, Nicholas R.
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Moreau, Luc
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Hall, Wendy
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Wei, Yan Zheng, Jennings, Nicholas R., Moreau, Luc and Hall, Wendy (2008) User evaluation of a market-based recommender system. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 17 (2), 251-269. (doi:10.1007/s10458-008-9029-x).

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Recommender systems have been developed for a wide variety of applications (ranging from books, to holidays, to web pages). These systems have used a number of different approaches, since no one technique is best for all users in all situations. Given this, we believe that to be effective, systems should incorporate a wide variety of such techniques and then some form of overarching framework should be put in place to coordinate them so that only the best recommendations (from whatever source) are presented to the user. To this end, in our previous work, we detailed a market-based approach in which various recommender agents competed with one another to present their recommendations to the user. We showed through theoretical analysis and empirical evaluation with simulated users that an appropriately designed marketplace should be able to provide effective coordination. Building on this, we now report on the development of this multi-agent system and its evaluation with real users. Specifically, we show that our system is capable of consistently giving high quality recommendations, that the best recommendations that could be put forward are actually put forward, and that the combination of recommenders performs better than any constituent recommender

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Published date: 1 October 2008
Keywords: recommender systems, auctions, marketplace, user evaluation
Organisations: Web & Internet Science, Agents, Interactions & Complexity

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Local EPrints ID: 265015
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/265015
ISSN: 1387-2532
PURE UUID: ad40733c-62e2-430c-aa32-0f82fa1fc4e3
ORCID for Luc Moreau: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3494-120X
ORCID for Wendy Hall: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4327-7811

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Date deposited: 08 Jan 2008 08:08
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:33

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Author: Yan Zheng Wei
Author: Nicholas R. Jennings
Author: Luc Moreau ORCID iD
Author: Wendy Hall ORCID iD

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