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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-020-04-0507</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">23105</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>I.2.1 - Applications and Expert Systems</subject>
          <subject>I.2.6 - Learning</subject>
          <subject>L.2.2 - Personalization and Profiling</subject>
          <subject>L.2.7 - User Satisfaction</subject>
          <subject>L.6.2 - Collaboration</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>A Hybrid Approach for Group Profiling in Recommender Systems</article-title>
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      <contrib-group content-type="authors">
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Christensen</surname>
            <given-names>Ingrid</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">ingrid.christensen@isistan.unicen.edu.ar</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Schiaffino</surname>
            <given-names>Silvia</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">ISISTAN (CONICET-UNCPBA), Tandil, Argentina</addr-line>
        <institution>ISISTAN (CONICET-UNCPBA)</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Tandil</addr-line>
        <country>Argentina</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Ingrid Christensen (<email xlink:type="simple">ingrid.christensen@isistan.unicen.edu.ar</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2014</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>04</month>
        <year>2014</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>20</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>507</fpage>
      <lpage>533</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/C70B0988-62B0-5E16-B7A8-B4D6495DAEAB">C70B0988-62B0-5E16-B7A8-B4D6495DAEAB</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/5505009">5505009</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>23</day>
          <month>10</month>
          <year>2012</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>25</day>
          <month>03</month>
          <year>2014</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Ingrid Christensen, Silvia Schiaffino</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Recommendation is a significant paradigm for information exploring, which focuses on the recovery of items of potential interest to users. Some activities tend to be social rather than individual, which puts forward the need to offer recommendations to groups of users. Group recommender systems present a whole set of new challenges within the field of recommender systems. In this paper, we present a hybrid approach based on group profiling for homogeneous and non-homogenous groups containing a few distant individual profiles among their members. This approach combines three familiar individual recommendation approaches: collaborative filtering, content-based filtering and demographic information. This hybrid approach allows the detection of those implicit similarities in the user rating profile, so as to include members with divergent profiles. We also describe the promising results obtained when evaluating the approach proposed in the movie and music domain.</p>
      </abstract>
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