Action Types

Each action has an action type. Per default the types VIEW, BUY and RATE are defined. Additional action types can be defined in the type manager within the easyrec web administration interface. Actions types can also specifiy an action value (e.g. a rating value for the type RATE) as well as a weight, so different actions can be weighted differently when analysing actions for recommendation generation. Generators use action types to select a subset of all actions for calculating Rules. For example, the SlopeOne Recommender generator only uses RATE actions, whereas the Association Rule Miner can be configured to use either VIEW or BUY actions.