Integrating with Social Network to Enhance Recommender System Based-on Dempster-Shafer Theory

In this paper, we developed a new collaborative filtering recommender system integrating with a social network that contains all users. In this system, user preferences and community preferences extracted from the social network are modeled as mass functions, and Dempster's rule of combination is selected for fusing the preferences. Especially, with the community preferences, both the sparsity and cold-start problems are completely eliminated. So as to evaluate and demonstrate the advantage of the new system, we have conducted a range of experiments using Flixster data set.