Recommender Systems: An Introduction by Dietmar Jannach, Markus Zanker, Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Friedrich

Recommender Systems: An Introduction



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Recommender Systems: An Introduction Dietmar Jannach, Markus Zanker, Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Friedrich ebook
ISBN: 0521493366, 9780521493369
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: pdf
Page: 353


The course is coming to the Washington DC area 20-22 Feb 2012. The talk As part of this collaboration, an on-line personalised retail recommender systems was developed, which also serve as a test-bed to evaluate the performance of their personalisation algorithms. Cloudera University is offering a new training course on data science titled Introduction to Data Science – Building Recommender Systems. SRS == Social Recommender Systems. Recommender systems are fast becoming as standard a tool as search engines, helping users to discover content that interests them with very little effort. 9:30 Introductions – all participants introduce themselves. We introduced recommender systems and compared them to relevant work in TEL like adaptive educational hypermedia, learning networks, educational data mining and learning analytics. Research on SRS using relationship information in early phases with inconclusive results, modest accuracy improvement in limited sets of cases. The argument comes from a paper by Daniel M. Introduce classification of SRS. Fleder and Kartik Hosanagar called Blockbuster Culture's Next Rise or Fall: The Impact of Recommender Systems on Sales Diversity. The whole construct rests on implicit assumption that moving from 48 customers and 48 products to millions of customers/products spread over multitude of social strata will not introduce factors rendering the entire thesis incongruous. This informative (and interesting) talk introduced some of the concepts involved in developing personalisation algorithms for the grocery retail sector, and discussed wider aspects such as the business challenges that have or are likely to be addressed.