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Integrating the recommender system effectively contributes to the prevention of disease, and it also leads to a reduction in treatment cost, which contributes to an improvement in the quality of life. At the same time, there exist various challenges within the recommender system, mainly cold start and scalability. To effectively address the inefficiencies, we propose combined hybrid methods in regard to machine learning. The primary aim of this learning method is to integrate the most effective and efficient learning algorithms to examine how combined hybrid filtering can help to improve the cold star problem efficiently in the provision of personalized well-being in regard to health food service. These methods include: (1) switching among content-based and collaborative filtering; (2) identifying the user context with the integration of dynamic filtering; and (3) learning the profiles with the help of processing and screening of reflecting feedback loops. The experimental results were evaluated by using three absolute error measures, providing comparable results with other studies relative to machine learning domains. The effects of using the hybrid learning method are gathered with the help of the experimental results. Our experiments also show that the hybrid method improves accuracy by 14.61% of the average error predicted in the recommender systems in comparison to the collaborative methods, which mainly focus on the computation of similar entities.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19020431","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,1,22]],"date-time":"2019-01-22T03:08:22Z","timestamp":1548126502000},"page":"431","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":34,"title":["A Smart Recommender Based on Hybrid Learning Methods for Personal Well-Being Services"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Rayan M.","family":"Nouh","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, Dankook University, 152 Jukjeon-ro Campus, Suji-gu, Yongin-si 16890, Gyeonggi-do, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hyun-Ho","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, Dankook University, 152 Jukjeon-ro Campus, Suji-gu, Yongin-si 16890, Gyeonggi-do, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Won-Jin","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, Dankook University, 152 Jukjeon-ro Campus, Suji-gu, Yongin-si 16890, Gyeonggi-do, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jae-Dong","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, Dankook University, 152 Jukjeon-ro Campus, Suji-gu, Yongin-si 16890, Gyeonggi-do, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,1,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Prendergast, K.B., Schofield, G.M., and Mackay, L.M. 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