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This paper describes a Recommender System that implements a Multiagent System for making personalised context and intention-aware recommendations of Points of Interest (POIs). A two-parted agent architecture was used, with an agent responsible for gathering POIs from a location-based service, and a set of Personal Assistant Agents (PAAs) collecting information about the context and intentions of its respective user. In each PAA were embedded four Machine Learning algorithms, with the purpose of ascertaining how well-suited these classifiers are for filtering irrelevant POIs, in a completely automatic fashion. Supervised, incremental learning occurs when the feedback on the true relevance of each recommendation is given by the user to his PAA. To evaluate the recommendations’ accuracy, we performed an experiment considering three types of users, using different contexts and intentions. As a result, all the PAA had high accuracy, revealing in specific situations F 1 scores higher than 87%.
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Costa, H., Furtado, B., Pires, D., Macedo, L., Cardoso, A. (2013). Recommending POIs Based on the User’s Context and Intentions. In: Corchado, J.M., et al. Highlights on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PAAMS 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 365. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38061-7_17
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