Location-based collaborative filtering for web service recommendation

Background: In many modern applications, information filtering is now used that exposes users to a collection of data. In such systems, the users are provided with recommended items’ list they might prefer or predict the rate that they might prefer for the items. So that, the users might be select the items that are preferred in that list. Objective: In web service recommendation based on Quality of Service (QoS), predicting QoS value will greatly help people to select the appropriate web service and discover new services. Methods: The effective method or technique for this would be Collaborative Filtering (CF). CF will greatly help in service selection and web service recommendation. It is the more general way of information filtering among the large data sets. In the narrower sense, it is the method of making predictions about a user’s interest by collecting taste information from many users. Results: It is easy to build and also much more effective for recommendations by predicting missing QoS values for the users. It also addresses the scalability problem since the recommendations are based on like-minded users using PCC or in clusters using KNN rather than in large data sources. Conclusion: In this paper, location-aware collaborative filtering is used to recommend the services. The proposed system compares the prediction outcomes and execution time with existing algorithms. © 2019 Bentham Science Publishers.