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9th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Informatics and Communications, Moscow, Russia, 20 - 22 August 2009, pp.133-135
We propose herein a technique for product recommendation in E-commerce by considering the context of product purchases, and verify the effectiveness of the technique through an evaluation experiment. Researchers have been aggressively studying techniques that can be used by stores to recommend to customers products that have relatively high purchase potential. Collaborative filtering is representative of conventional techniques. However, the collaborative filtering technique is based on the hypothesis that similar customers purchase similar products, and the context of product purchases is not considered in full. In the present study, a context matrix by which to manage the context history of product purchases is proposed. The results of an evaluation experiment reveal that our proposition is useful.