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Recommender Systems: Models and Techniques

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Synonyms

Advisory systems; Recommendation systems

Glossary

Context:

Situational factors influencing the evaluation of a user for an item

Experience:

The interaction of a user with an item that is resulting in an evaluation

Evaluation Prediction:

The system’s prediction of the user’s evaluation for an item

Information Filtering:

Technique for providing only relevant information to a user

Item:

Information content that can be recommended by a RS

Personalization:

Providing a user with content adapted or suited to their needs and wants

Preferences:

A structured representation of the user preferences for items

Recommendations:

System’s selected items that are suggested to a user

RSs:

Recommender systems

Situation:

Conditions under which an item is evaluated by a user

Tag:

Metadata in the form of freely chosen keyword

Definition

RSs are information search and filtering tools that provide suggestions for items to be of use to a user. They have become common in a large number of Internet...

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

    Francesco Ricci

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Centre for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (CPAMI), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Fakhreddine Karray

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Ricci, F. (2018). Recommender Systems: Models and Techniques. 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_88

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