NDLI: Time-aware recommender systems: a comprehensive survey and analysis of existing evaluation protocols

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Author	Campos, Pedro G. Díez, Fernando Cantador, Iván
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Exploiting temporal context has been proved to be an effective approach to improve recommendation performance, as shown, e.g. in the Netflix Prize competition. Time-aware recommender systems (TARS) are indeed receiving increasing attention. A wide range of approaches dealing with the time dimension in user modeling and recommendation strategies have been proposed. In the literature, however, reported results and conclusions about how to incorporate and exploit time information within the recommendation processes seem to be contradictory in some cases. Aiming to clarify and address existing discrepancies, in this paper we present a comprehensive survey and analysis of the state of the art on TARS. The analysis show that meaningful divergences appear in the evaluation protocols used—metrics and methodologies. We identify a number of key conditions on offline evaluation of TARS, and based on these conditions, we provide a comprehensive classification of evaluation protocols for TARS. Moreover, we propose a methodological description framework aimed to make the evaluation process fair and reproducible. We also present an empirical study on the impact of different evaluation protocols on measuring relative performances of well-known TARS. The results obtained show that different uses of the above evaluation conditions yield to remarkably distinct performance and relative ranking values of the recommendation approaches. They reveal the need of clearly stating the evaluation conditions used to ensure comparability and reproducibility of reported results. From our analysis and experiments, we finally conclude with methodological issues a robust evaluation of TARS should take into consideration. Furthermore we provide a number of general guidelines to select proper conditions for evaluating particular TARS.
Starting Page	67
Ending Page	119
Page Count	53
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09241868
Journal	User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
Volume Number	24
Issue Number	1-2
e-ISSN	15731391
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2013-02-15
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Time-aware recommender systems Context-aware recommender systems Evaluation methodologies Survey User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction Multimedia Information Systems Management of Computing and Information Systems
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Human-Computer Interaction Computer Science Applications

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