Introduction.- The Market of Scientific and Technical Information.- Classification and Mechanism Design of Recommender Systems.- A Survey of Recommender Systems at Major STI Providers.- Case Study: Explicit Recommender Services for Scientific Libraries.- General Concepts of Beha…
Information providers are a very promising application area of recommender systems due to the general problem of assessing the quality of information products prior to the purchase. Recommender systems automatically generate product recommendations: customers profit from a faste…
All aspects of recommender systems are covered in this title: the economic background, mechanism design, a survey of systems in the Internet, statistical methods and algorithms, service oriented architectures, user interfaces, as well as experiences and data from real-world appl…