A service-based recommendation system to assist decision making in a small and medium company

Collaboration and resource sharing have attracted a great interest among companies. Our contribution relates to this context, providing a decision-making support for companies. We propose a platform to facilitate resource sharing between collaborative companies, through a recommendation system. This system provides similar services that respond to a company’s needs. The approach presented in this paper includes the choice of a representation model for the services as well as the selection of an appropriate measure of similarity. This latter is mainly based on a comparative study of three measures of similarity using several performance evaluation measures. In order to evaluate our approach,…