A Multi-Criteria Collaborative Filtering Approach Using Deep Learning and Dempster-Shafer Theory for Hotel Recommendations

Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of multi-criteria recommendation in the hotel industry. The main focus is to analyze user preferences from different aspects based on multi-criteria ratings and develop a new multi-criteria collaborative filtering method for hotel recommendations. Particularly, the proposed recommendation system integrates matrix factorization into a deep learning model to predict the multi-criteria ratings, and then the evidential reasoning approach is adopted to model the uncertainty of those ratings represented as mass functions in Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence. Finally, Dempster’s rule of combination is utilized to aggregate those multi-criteria ratings to obtain the overall rating for recommendation. Extensive experiments conducted on a real-world dataset demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method compared with other multi-criteria collaborative filtering methods.