Applying Biclustering to Perform Collaborative Filtering

Collaborative filtering (CF) is a method to perform automated suggestions for a user based on the opinion of other users with similar interest. Most of the CF algorithms do not take into account the existent duality between users and items, considering only the similarities between users or only the similarities between items. In this paper we propose a novel methodology for the CF capable of dealing with this situation. By proposing an immune-inspired bi clustering technique to carry out clustering of rows and columns at the same time, our algorithm is able to group similarities between users and items. In order to evaluate the proposed methodology, we have applied it to Movie Lens dataset which contains user's ratings to a large set of movies. The results indicate that our proposal is able to provide useful recommendations for the users, outperforming other methodologies for CF reported in the literature.