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Recent hybrid\n                    <jats:italic>RS<\/jats:italic>\n                    s combine\n                    <jats:italic>ConF<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>ColF<\/jats:italic>\n                    . We introduce an ontological hybrid RS where the ontology has been employed in its\n                    <jats:italic>ConF<\/jats:italic>\n                    part while improving the ontology structure by its\n                    <jats:italic>ColF<\/jats:italic>\n                    part. In this paper, a new hybrid approach is proposed based on the combination of demographic similarity and cosine similarity between users in order to solve the cold start problem of new user type. Also, a new approach is proposed based on the combination of ontological similarity and cosine similarity between items in order to solve the cold start problem of new item type. 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