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A common cause of retrieval failure in case-based reasoning (CBR) approaches to product recommendation is that the retrieved cases, usually those that are most similar to the target query, are not sufficiently representative of compromises that the user may be prepared to make. We present a new approach to retrieval in which similarity and compromise play complementary roles, thereby increasing the likelihood that one of the retrieved cases will be acceptable to the user. We also show how the approach can be extended to address the requirements of domains in which the user is not just seeking a single item that closely matches her query, but would like to be informed of all items that are likely to be of interest.
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McSherry, D. (2003). Similarity and Compromise. In: Ashley, K.D., Bridge, D.G. (eds) Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development. ICCBR 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2689. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45006-8_24
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