CHIC: A Combination-based Recommendation System

Summary: CHIC proposes a combination-based recommender for apparel to overcome the limits of similarity-based multi-item ensembles. It introduces C-Search for diverse combination discovery and demonstrates model-building and interactive demos via a mobile app. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4741
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 5.744811e-05
Overall Rank: 6,890 | 52.73%
DOI: 10.1145/2463676.2465270

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Manasi Vartak (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2. Samuel Madden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{vartak_sigmod13,
        title = {{CHIC: A Combination-based Recommendation System}},
        author = {Vartak, Manasi and Madden, Samuel},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '13},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2463676.2465270},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2463676.2465270},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,852	A Personalized Recommendation System for NetEase Dating Site	2014	VLDB	5.2094004e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13	Mining Association Rules between Sets of Items in Large Databases	1993	SIGMOD	0.0006567919
509	Supporting Top-k Join Queries in Relational Databases	2003	VLDB	0.00017220967
635	Evaluating Top-k Selection Queries	1999	VLDB	0.00015527042
973	RankSQL: Query Algebra and Optimization for Relational Top-k Queries	2005	SIGMOD	0.00012874284

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