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The impact of consumer preferences on the accuracy of collaborative filtering recommender systems

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  • Sebastian Köhler
  • Thomas Wöhner
  • Ralf Peters

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Despite the omnipresent use of recommender systems in electronic markets, previous research has not analyzed how consumer preferences affect the accuracy of recommender systems. Markets, however, are characterized by a certain structure of consumers’ preferences. Consequently, it is not known in which markets recommender systems perform well. In this paper, we introduce a microeconomic model that allows a systematical analysis of different structures of consumers’ preferences. We develop a model-specific metric to measure the recommendation accuracy. We employ our model in a simulation to evaluate the impact of the structure of the consumers’ preferences on the accuracy of a popular collaborative filtering algorithm. Our study shows that recommendation accuracy is significantly affected by the similarity and number of consumer types and the distribution of consumers. The investigation reveals that in certain markets even random product recommendations outperform the collaborative filtering algorithm.

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  • Sebastian Köhler & Thomas Wöhner & Ralf Peters, 2016. "The impact of consumer preferences on the accuracy of collaborative filtering recommender systems," Electronic Markets, Springer;IIM University of St. Gallen, vol. 26(4), pages 369-379, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:elmark:v:26:y:2016:i:4:d:10.1007_s12525-016-0232-3
    DOI: 10.1007/s12525-016-0232-3
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    Recommender system; Consumer preferences; Recommendation accuracy; Collaborative filtering;
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    • M2 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics

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