Waqar Ali¹, May Altulyan², Ghulam Farooque³, Siyuan Li⁴, Jie Shao^4,5,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.87, No.3, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2026.078599 - 09 April 2026

Abstract Federated recommender systems (FedRS) enable collaborative model training while preserving user privacy, yet they remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks, unreliable client updates, and misaligned incentives in decentralized environments. Existing approaches struggle to jointly preserve personalization, robustness, and trust when user data are highly non-IID and recommendation quality is governed by ranking-oriented objectives. To address these challenges, we propose a Trustworthy Federated Recommender System (T-FedRS) that extends federated neural collaborative filtering by integrating a ranking-aware reputation mechanism and a lightweight blockchain layer for transparent incentive allocation. Personalization is preserved through locally maintained user embeddings, while item parameters… More >

Ravi Nahta¹, Nagaraj Naik^2,*, Srivinay³, Swetha Parvatha Reddy Chandrasekhara⁴

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.144, No.1, pp. 461-487, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2025.063973 - 31 July 2025

Abstract The exponential growth of over-the-top (OTT) entertainment has fueled a surge in content consumption across diverse formats, especially in regional Indian languages. With the Indian film industry producing over 1500 films annually in more than 20 languages, personalized recommendations are essential to highlight relevant content. To overcome the limitations of traditional recommender systems—such as static latent vectors, poor handling of cold-start scenarios, and the absence of uncertainty modeling—we propose a deep Collaborative Neural Generative Embedding (C-NGE) model. C-NGE dynamically learns user and item representations by integrating rating information and metadata features in a unified neural More >

Yong Zheng^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.83, No.3, pp. 4315-4328, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.063498 - 19 May 2025

Abstract A recommender system is a tool designed to suggest relevant items to users based on their preferences and behaviors. Collaborative filtering, a popular technique within recommender systems, predicts user interests by analyzing patterns in interactions and similarities between users, leveraging past behavior data to make personalized recommendations. Despite its popularity, collaborative filtering faces notable challenges, and one of them is the issue of grey-sheep users who have unusual tastes in the system. Surprisingly, existing research has not extensively explored outlier detection techniques to address the grey-sheep problem. To fill this research gap, this study conducts… More >

S. Abinaya^*, K. Uttej Kumar

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.2, pp. 2269-2286, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.047167 - 27 February 2024

Abstract A Recommender System (RS) is a crucial part of several firms, particularly those involved in e-commerce. In conventional RS, a user may only offer a single rating for an item-that is insufficient to perceive consumer preferences. Nowadays, businesses in industries like e-learning and tourism enable customers to rate a product using a variety of factors to comprehend customers’ preferences. On the other hand, the collaborative filtering (CF) algorithm utilizing AutoEncoder (AE) is seen to be effective in identifying user-interested items. However, the cost of these computations increases nonlinearly as the number of items and users… More >

R. Sujatha^1,*, T. Abirami²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.2, pp. 1775-1787, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.031552 - 09 February 2023

Abstract The digital technologies that run based on users’ content provide a platform for users to help air their opinions on various aspects of a particular subject or product. The recommendation agents play a crucial role in personalizing the needs of individual users. Therefore, it is essential to improve the user experience. The recommender system focuses on recommending a set of items to a user to help the decision-making process and is prevalent across e-commerce and media websites. In Context-Aware Recommender Systems (CARS), several influential and contextual variables are identified to provide an effective recommendation. A… More >

P. N. Ramesh^1,*, S. Kannimuthu²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.3, pp. 3845-3860, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.031329 - 17 August 2022

Abstract The use of programming online judges (POJs) has risen dramatically in recent years, owing to the fact that the auto-evaluation of codes during practice motivates students to learn programming. Since POJs have greater number of programming problems in their repository, learners experience information overload. Recommender systems are a common solution to information overload. Current recommender systems used in e-learning platforms are inadequate for POJ since recommendations should consider learners’ current context, like learning goals and current skill level (topic knowledge and difficulty level). To overcome the issue, we propose a context-aware practice problem recommender system… More >

S. Rajalakshmi^1,*, K. R. Santha²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.2, pp. 1251-1262, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.024036 - 15 June 2022

Abstract A recommender system is an approach performed by e-commerce for increasing smooth users’ experience. Sequential pattern mining is a technique of data mining used to identify the co-occurrence relationships by taking into account the order of transactions. This work will present the implementation of sequence pattern mining for recommender systems within the domain of e-commerce. This work will execute the Systolic tree algorithm for mining the frequent patterns to yield feasible rules for the recommender system. The feature selection's objective is to pick a feature subset having the least feature similarity as well as highest… More >

Son-Lam VU, Quang-Hung LE^*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.1, pp. 471-483, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.025897 - 01 June 2022

Abstract Recommender systems are similar to an information filtering system that helps identify items that best satisfy the users’ demands based on their preference profiles. Context-aware recommender systems (CARSs) and multi-criteria recommender systems (MCRSs) are extensions of traditional recommender systems. CARSs have integrated additional contextual information such as time, place, and so on for providing better recommendations. However, the majority of CARSs use ratings as a unique criterion for building communities. Meanwhile, MCRSs utilize user preferences in multiple criteria to better generate recommendations. Up to now, how to exploit context in MCRSs is still an open More >

Abdelrahman H. Hussein, Qasem M. Kharma, Faris M. Taweel, Mosleh M. Abualhaj, Qusai Y. Shambour^*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.1, pp. 661-675, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.020132 - 03 September 2021

Abstract Recommender systems act as decision support systems in supporting users in selecting the right choice of items or services from a high number of choices in an overloaded search space. However, such systems have difficulty dealing with sparse rating data. One way to deal with this issue is to incorporate additional explicit information, also known as side information, to the rating information. However, this side information requires some explicit action from the users and often not always available. Accordingly, this study presents a hybrid multi-criteria collaborative filtering model. The proposed model exploits the multi-criteria ratings, More >

Qusai Y. Shambour^*, Abdelrahman H. Hussein, Qasem M. Kharma, Mosleh M. Abualhaj

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.40, No.1, pp. 113-125, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.017221 - 26 August 2021

Abstract Requirements engineering (RE) is among the most valuable and critical processes in software development. The quality of this process significantly affects the success of a software project. An important step in RE is requirements elicitation, which involves collecting project-related requirements from different sources. Repositories of reusable requirements are typically important sources of an increasing number of reusable software requirements. However, the process of searching such repositories to collect valuable project-related requirements is time-consuming and difficult to perform accurately. Recommender systems have been widely recognized as an effective solution to such problem. Accordingly, this study proposes More >