Good advice costs nothing and it's worth the price: incentive compatible recommendation mechanisms for exploring unknown options

Recommender systems are valuable to their users to the extent that they have unique information about which options are best. One way that such a system can gain this knowledge is by recommending that a user explore an option whose value is unknown, and receiving the feedback of the user. If this is...

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Main Author: Green, Perry Aaron
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2014
Online Access:http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12553869