Serendipity in Recommender Systems
Ashishkumar Patel, Kiran R. Amin · International Journal of Engineering and Technology · 2018
Today the growth of information technology, social networking and commercial websites are heavily increased.Because of it the information available for users is increased.Because of this information overload users cannot select best items from available various items.To solve this problem Recommender System (RS) required to explicit preferences and monitoring of implicit behaviour of user.The traditional RS recommends the items to the user based on their choice.But after some time user become bored with same kind of recommendations again and again.To provide surprise in the presented items another king of qualitative parameter required namely -"Serendipity".Serendipity refers to the "phenomenon of spontaneously understanding unexpected things, including time, location, people, and contents".This paper is detailed survey about serendipity in various aspects in study, equations, components, related works and measures of serendipity in RS.Keyword -Serendipity,