Personalized recommendation on multi-layer context graph

Recommender systems have been successfully dealing with the problem of information overload. A considerable amount of research has been conducted on recommender systems, but most existing approaches only focus on user and item dimensions and neglect any additional contextual information, such as time and location. In this paper, we propose a Multi-Layer Context Graph (MLCG) model which incorporates a variety of contextual information into a recommendation process and models the interactions between users and items for better recommendation. Moreover, we provide a new ranking algorithm based on Personalized PageRank for recommendation in MLCG, which captures users' preferences and current situations. The experiments on two real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.