Hypergraph fuzzy minimals transversals mining: A new approach for social media recommendation

User preference discovery aims to detect the patterns of user preferences for various topics of interest or items such as movie genre or category. Preferences discovery is a crucial stage in the development of intelligent personalization systems. Although a variety of studies have been proposed in the literature addressing a wide range of applications such as recommender systems or personalized search, only a few of them have considered the management of imprecision in the representation of user and item features. This paper aims to address the above issue by using fuzzy sets. The paper proposes a general framework for preferences discovery through fuzzy sets and fuzzy models and it introduces a new algorithm for representing and discovering fuzzy user interest profile. Based on the results of the empirical evaluation, the proposed approach outperforms two well-known recommendation approaches in terms of well-known quality assessment metrics, namely: discounted cumulative gain, precision, recall, as well as F1-measure.