Functional feature-aware APP recommendation with personalised PageRank. (16th March 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Xia, Yueyue; Zhong, Xiangliang; Zhang, Yiwen; Yan, Yuanting
• Is Part Of: International journal of ad hoc and ubiquitous computing. Volume 39:Number 4(2022)
• Page Start: 182
• Page End: 191
• Publication Date: 2022-03-16
• Subjects: functional feature-aware -- APP recommendation -- PageRank -- user preference; Ubiquitous computing -- Periodicals; Embedded computer systems -- Periodicals; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing -- Periodicals; Wireless communication systems -- Periodicals; Computer architecture -- Periodicals; 004.2
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-8225

Abstract

With the explosive growth of mobile applications and the widespread deployment of internet of things (IoT) services, it has become an urgent problem to recommend applications for users that they are interested in. And most of the current mobile APP recommendation methods are based on the user's behaviour data or context-aware information, to some extent, ignoring the user's preference for APP functional features. Therefore, this paper proposes a functional feature-aware mobile APP recommendation method, named S-AppRank. S-AppRank first extracts the functional features of mobile applications and their internal association through weight calculation, then constructs a directed graph of user functional features with the association rules, and then adds user ratings to the traditional PageRank algorithm, incorporating explicit feedback into recommendation personally. Finally, the user's interests in the overall APP are predicted, and a recommendation list is generated. The experiments on the real dataset of Huawei application market show that the S-AppRank proposed in this paper is better than other comparison methods.