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de Gemmis, M., Lops, P., Polignano, M. (2018). Recommender Systems, Basics of. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_110158

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