diff --git a/02_Proposal/sections/10_foundations.tex b/02_Proposal/sections/10_foundations.tex index a1bcfae..8ddeccc 100644 --- a/02_Proposal/sections/10_foundations.tex +++ b/02_Proposal/sections/10_foundations.tex @@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ There are several approaches to recommender systems presented in \cite{felfernig In collaborative filtering a users rating for unknown items is predicted by finding similar users who have rated it. Their rating is used as prediction \cite[~ pp. 7, 8]{felfernigDecisionTasksBasic2018}. +Collaborative Filtering can not only be done using users, it can also be item-based. Hereby the similarity between items is used for a recommendation and not similar users \cite{ricciRecommenderSystemsHandbook2015}. In the context of configuration the similarity to other historic configurations can be used which makes it an item based approach. + + \subsection{Content-Based Filtering} Items and users are assigned to categories. Based on consumption and rating of items a user will have implicit ratings for categories. Predictions are now made based on a categories of the new item \cite[~ pp. 10, 11]{felfernigDecisionTasksBasic2018}. @@ -47,7 +50,7 @@ where \( V = \{v_1,\dots, v_n\} \) is a set of variables, \( D = dom : V \mapsto \section{Group-Based Product Configuration} \label{sec:Foundations:GroupBasedProductConfiguration} -To define group-based product configuration we extend the definition (\ref{sec:Foundations:ProductConfiguration}) to +If instead of a single person configuring a product we would like to have a group of people which can be useful in multi-stakeholder decisions, it needs mechanisms for describing the preferences of multiple people. Therefore we extend the definition of product configuration from (\ref{sec:Foundations:ProductConfiguration}) to \[ C_{PREF} = \bigcup PREF_i \]