TY - JOUR
T1 - A systematic literature review of linked data-based recommender systems
AU - Figueroa, Cristhian
AU - Vagliano, Iacopo
AU - Rocha, Oscar Rodríguez
AU - Morisio, Maurizio
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
PY - 2015/12/10
Y1 - 2015/12/10
N2 - Recommender systems (RS) are software tools that use analytic technologies to suggest different items of interest to an end user. Linked Data is a set of best practices for publishing and connecting structured data on the Web. This paper presents a systematic literature review to summarize the state of the art in RS that use structured data published as Linked Data for providing recommendations of items from diverse domains. It considers the most relevant research problems addressed and classifies RS according to how Linked Data have been used to provide recommendations. Furthermore, it analyzes contributions, limitations, application domains, evaluation techniques, and directions proposed for future research. We found that there are still many open challenges with regard to RS based on Linked Data in order to be efficient for real applications. The main ones are personalization of recommendations, use of more datasets considering the heterogeneity introduced, creation of new hybrid RS for adding information, definition of more advanced similarity measures that take into account the large amount of data in Linked Data datasets, and implementation of testbeds to study evaluation techniques and to assess the accuracy scalability and computational complexity of RS.
AB - Recommender systems (RS) are software tools that use analytic technologies to suggest different items of interest to an end user. Linked Data is a set of best practices for publishing and connecting structured data on the Web. This paper presents a systematic literature review to summarize the state of the art in RS that use structured data published as Linked Data for providing recommendations of items from diverse domains. It considers the most relevant research problems addressed and classifies RS according to how Linked Data have been used to provide recommendations. Furthermore, it analyzes contributions, limitations, application domains, evaluation techniques, and directions proposed for future research. We found that there are still many open challenges with regard to RS based on Linked Data in order to be efficient for real applications. The main ones are personalization of recommendations, use of more datasets considering the heterogeneity introduced, creation of new hybrid RS for adding information, definition of more advanced similarity measures that take into account the large amount of data in Linked Data datasets, and implementation of testbeds to study evaluation techniques and to assess the accuracy scalability and computational complexity of RS.
KW - Linked data
KW - Recommender systems
KW - Systematic review
KW - Web of data
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84923050912&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.3449
DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.3449
M3 - Review article
SN - 1532-0626
VL - 27
SP - 4659
EP - 4684
JO - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
JF - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
IS - 17
ER -