abstract = "Recommender systems (RSs) are software tools that work
as guides by suggesting products to users from a vast
catalogue of products. Various approaches and
techniques have been developed to provide effective
recommendations to users. Classical collaborative
filtering (CF) based RSs helps users by providing
suggestions based on their overall assessment of items.
However, providing suggestions based on their overall
assessment is not an efficient way. So, multi-criteria
recommender systems (MCRS) came into existence as an
extended approach for suggesting products to users
based on multiple features of products, and adding
these multiple features can enhance the performance of
the system. However, aggregation of these feature
assessment i.e. feedback provided to multiple criteria
is a key issue in MCRS. In this paper, we present a
comparative analysis of genetic algorithm (GA) and
genetic programming (GP) approaches to aggregate
criteria ratings for predicting user preferences in
MCRS. These two algorithms are bio-inspired and have
great potential to solve optimization problems. In this
research, GP and GA are used to solve the aggregation
problem in MCRS by estimating weights for each
criterion in a system. We compared the results of
genetic programming and genetic algorithm approaches to
show their effectiveness in multi-criteria rating
systems.",
notes = "The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur,
India