The large mass of various products/services accessible on the Internet has motivated the development of recommender systems to refine the selection of items aligned with users' expectations. Recommender systems have been developed to tackle the item targeting problem. They are crucial tools that quickly target items fitting users' needs, thus allowing them to easily identify the items that fit their tastes and preferences. Following state-of-the-art methods, a distinction is made between content-based recommender approaches and collaborative filtering-based recommender approaches. Collaborative filtering-based recommender approaches are the most widely adopted methods. They are divided into memory-based methods that show the advantage of their easy-understandability, and model-based methods that are data sparsity resilient and high-accurate. In this paper, we propose a hybrid model-based recommendation approach, a combination of a user-based approach and an item-based approach. Our method estimates the probability with which a user would rate an item. It performs a Bayesian inference of future end-user interests and shows the advantage of the easy-understandability of memory-based methods and the effectiveness of modelbased methods. Experiments are conducted on real-world datasets and show that our method outperforms several state-of-the-art recommendation methods regarding the prediction accuracy and the recommendation quality.

The rise of high-quality cloud services has made service recommendation a crucial research question. Quality of Service (QoS) is widely adopted to characterize the performance of services invoked by users. For this purpose, the QoS prediction of services constitutes a decisive tool to allow end-users to optimally choose high-quality cloud services aligned with their needs. The fact is that users only consume a few of the broad range of existing services. Thereby, perform a highaccurate service recommendation becomes a challenging task. To tackle the aforementioned challenges, we propose a data sparsity resilient service recommendation approach that aims to predict relevant services in a sustainable manner for endusers. Indeed, our method performs both a QoS prediction of the current time interval using a flexible matrix factorization technique and a QoS prediction of the future time interval using a time series forecasting method based on an AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model. The service recommendation in our approach is based on a couple of criteria ensuring in a lasting way, the appropriateness of the services returned to the active user. The experiments are conducted on a real-world dataset and demonstrate the effectiveness of our method compared to the competing recommendation methods.

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