A System for Recommending Rental Properties

This paper presents an implementation of recommender technology to online search of rental properties. In particular, the paper uses the preference-based search approach combined with a technique called example-critiquing. Rather than perform a query against the database, this approach prompts the u...

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Main Authors: Bernard Shibwabo Kasamani, Guy Nahimana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Czech Society of Systems Integration 2017-07-01
Series:Journal of Systems Integration
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Online Access:http://www.si-journal.org/index.php/JSI/article/viewFile/310/311
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spelling doaj-26e9092670984ac68560d0104a08463b2020-11-24T23:06:41ZengCzech Society of Systems IntegrationJournal of Systems Integration1804-27242017-07-0183101810.20470/jsi.v8i2.310A System for Recommending Rental PropertiesBernard Shibwabo KasamaniGuy NahimanaThis paper presents an implementation of recommender technology to online search of rental properties. In particular, the paper uses the preference-based search approach combined with a technique called example-critiquing. Rather than perform a query against the database, this approach prompts the user to express some preferences on rental properties, uses them to construct a preference model for the user, and finally generates a list of properties that best match that preferences. The system is developed as Web application using the Ruby on Rails frameworkhttp://www.si-journal.org/index.php/JSI/article/viewFile/310/311Preference-based searchexample-critiquingRecommender SystemProperty Search
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author Bernard Shibwabo Kasamani
Guy Nahimana
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A System for Recommending Rental Properties
Journal of Systems Integration
Preference-based search
example-critiquing
Recommender System
Property Search
author_facet Bernard Shibwabo Kasamani
Guy Nahimana
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title A System for Recommending Rental Properties
title_short A System for Recommending Rental Properties
title_full A System for Recommending Rental Properties
title_fullStr A System for Recommending Rental Properties
title_full_unstemmed A System for Recommending Rental Properties
title_sort system for recommending rental properties
publisher Czech Society of Systems Integration
series Journal of Systems Integration
issn 1804-2724
publishDate 2017-07-01
description This paper presents an implementation of recommender technology to online search of rental properties. In particular, the paper uses the preference-based search approach combined with a technique called example-critiquing. Rather than perform a query against the database, this approach prompts the user to express some preferences on rental properties, uses them to construct a preference model for the user, and finally generates a list of properties that best match that preferences. The system is developed as Web application using the Ruby on Rails framework
topic Preference-based search
example-critiquing
Recommender System
Property Search
url http://www.si-journal.org/index.php/JSI/article/viewFile/310/311
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