Default Preference Engine recommendations
The Preference Engine reads the value from the score field in the Lps_Item_Data table to determine which items are popular. Hence, a higher score means that the item is more popular.
When buildstats
runs, it updates the score field to the average
rating for that item; it generates this value based on the rating set defined in the db.applic.rating.source
parameter. To get reliable default
recommendations, run the buildstats
utility on a regular basis.
By default, the installer sets buildstats
to run once a day.
Some applications use their own business logic to assign the score to items. If you want to
override the score field value to use your application's scoring instead, run buildstats
using the -noscore
argument.