Multi-criteria journey aware housing recommender system

Abstract

Recommender systems can be employed to assist users in complex decision making processes. This paper presents a multi-criteria housing recommender system which takes into account not just features of a home, such as rent, but also the transportation links to user specified locations. First, we describe an efficient multihop journey time calculator. Second, we introduce a mechanism to find the optimal solutions for multi-criteria evaluation, where a balanced trade-off between the target goals is found. Finally, we present a user study to demonstrate the potential of such a system.