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RUE 2012
Recommendation Utility Evaluation: Beyond RMSE


Proceedings of the Workshop on Recommendation Utility Evaluation: Beyond RMSE (RUE 2012)

Workshop at the 6th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems ( RecSys 2012 )

Dublin, Ireland, September 9, 2012 .


Edited by

Xavier Amatriain 1
Pablo Castells 2
Arjen de Vries 3
Christian Posse 4
Harald Steck 1

1 Netflix , USA
2 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid , Spain
3 Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica , Netherlands , Netherlands
4 Linkedin , USA



Table of Contents

    Full technical papers

  1. Iterative Smoothing Technique for Improving the Stability of Recommender Systems 3-8
    Gediminas Adomavicius, Jingjing Zhang
  2. Toward a New Protocol to Evaluate Recommender Systems 9-14
    Frank Meyer, Françoise Fessant, Fabrice Clérot, Eric Gaussier
  3. Using Crowdsourcing to Compare Document Recommendation Strategies for Conversations 15-20
    Maryam Habibi, Andrei Popescu-Belis

    4. Position papers

  4. Recommender Systems Evaluation: A 3D Benchmark 21-23
    Alan Said, Domonkos Tikk, Klara Stumpf, Yue Shi, Martha Larson, Paolo Cremonesi
  5. On the Use of Weighted Mean Absolute Error in Recommender Systems 24-26
    Sergio Cleger-Tamayo, Juan M. Fernández-Luna, Juan F. Huete
  6. How Similar is Rating Similarity to Content Similarity? 27-29
    Osman Başkaya, Tevfik Aytekin
  7. Modeling Difficulty in Recommender Systems 30-32
    Benjamin Kille

    8. Posters

  8. Insights on Social Recommender Systems 33-38
    Wolney Leal De Mello Neto, Ann Nowé
  9. User Evaluation of Fusion-based Recommender Systems for Serendipity-oriented Recommendation 39-44
    Kenta Oku, Fumio Hattori
  10. Case Study Evaluation of Mahout as a Recommender Platform 45-50
    Carlos E. Seminario, David C. Wilson
  11. Evaluating the Importance of Various Implicit Factors in E-commerce 51-55
    Ladislav Peska, Peter Vojtas

The whole proceedings can also be downloaded as a single file ( pdf ).

28-Sep-2012: submitted by Pablo Castells
02-Oct-2012 : published on CEUR-WS.org