Research Article

A Movie Recommender System Based on User Profile and Artificial Bee Colony Optimization

Table 2

Notations used in this study.

SymbolDescription

Random value in the interval [0, 1] for modifying a solution in ABC algorithm
The Euclidean distance between users u and
FThe number of features in the database
The calculated fitness value for solution vector in ABC algorithm
The minimum value of feature f in database
The maximum value of feature f in database
FNThe number of false negative samples
FPThe number of false positive samples
Pearson correlation coefficient of feature x
NThe number of network users
Normalized vector of feature f
The probability of selecting a solution in the evaluation phase of ABC algorithm
Average of the linear correlation between the attribute set f and the categories c
Average of the linear correlation between the features of set f
SNThe population size in the ABC algorithm
TPThe number of true positive samples