A novel multi-agent community building scheme based on collaboration filtering

作者:Sun, Yu*; Han, Peng; Zhang, Qian; Zhang, Xia
来源:4th International Conference on Web- Based Learning - ICWL 2005, China,Hong Kong, 2005-07-31 to 2005-08-03.

摘要

Research on e-learner community building has attracted much attention for its effectiveness in sharing the learning experience and resources among geographically dispersed e-learners. While collaborative filtering proves its success as one of the most efficient methods in finding similar users in ecommerce domain, it does meet special challenges in e-leaming areas. In this paper, we incorporate multi-agent techniques into collaborative filtering and propose a novel community building scheme. By doing so, we manage to collect useful information from the learner behaviors and thus increase the scalability and flexibility of traditional collaborative filtering methods. The experiment on a standard benchmark shows that our scheme has reasonable community building quality and e-learners can make better recommendations to each other inside the community.

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