Applied Sciences (Aug 2022)

The Recommendation of the Rural Ecological Civilization Pattern Based on Geographic Data Argumentation

  • Mengfei Xu,
  • Shu Wang,
  • Chenlong Song,
  • Anqi Zhu,
  • Yunqiang Zhu,
  • Zhiqiang Zou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/app12168024
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 16
p. 8024

Abstract

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For any rural area, a suitable ecological civilization model is of great significance and must be recommended taking into account its natural, social, and cultural characteristics so that the model is conducive to the sustainable development of its economy, environment, and industrial structure. However, the rural attribute data required for such a recommendation are often missing, and the data sparsity leads to the low accuracy of and poor training effect issues in recommendation algorithms. To address this issue, this paper proposes a geographic data augmentation method, namely the spatial factor on generative adversarial networks (S-GANs), which combines the generative adversarial network (GAN) with the Third Law of Geography. Specifically, the GAN is used to generate data for the rural ecological civilization recommender system, while the Third Law of Geography is used to ensure that the generated data conform to the real geographical environment. To test the effectiveness of the S-GAN method, the experiment used the enhanced rural attribute data as the input of three recommendation systems: RippleNet, KGCN, and KGNN-LS. Compared with the data before argumentation, the recommendation accuracy increased by 55.49%, 25.12%, and 27.14% in RippleNet, KGCN, and KGNN-LS, respectively. The experimental results show that the S-GAN is effective in geographic data argumentation for recommendation and is expected to be widely used in other geographic data argumentation fields.

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