A system and method of predicting a user's rating of a new item in a collaborative filtering system in which an initial set of correlation coefficients for the intended users is used to bootstrap the system is described. The users are members of a predetermined organization and the initial correlation...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US6389372?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6389372 - System and method for bootstrapping a collaborative filtering system
