On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Thomas Rewig<[email protected]> wrote:
> Because I precompute the Item-Similarity-Matrix with a UserBasedSimilarity
> and that DB-Table:
> || aItem || aItemCharacteristic || aItemValue ||  ... so

Oh I see, yes.

> If I use a CachingItemSimilarity I must use a ItemSimilarity:
>
>       aCorrelation = aItemSimilarity.itemSimilarity(item1, item2);
>
> This is in my example and my opinion the similarity between
> aItemCharacteristic1 and aItemCharacteristic2 and this isn't interesting for
> me.
> So I must use the UserSimilarity objects and the UserBasedRecommender
> although I would prefer the ItemBasedRecommender.

OK so use CachingUserSimilarity then. There are versions for both.


> Yes real-time is the dream :-) but I know this will be hard to reach. I
> first will follow your hints and if the worst-case recommendation will no
> longer be 80s I'm happy :-).

Yes 80 seconds is not reasonable.

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