Contributions to Management Science
2009
Recommender Systems for Information ProvidersDesigning Customer Centric Paths to InformationAuthors:

• Andreas W. Neumann
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ISBN: 978-3-7908-2133-8 (Print) 978-3-7908-2134-5  (Online)



Designing Customer Centric Paths to Information

Series: Contributions to Management Science

Neumann, Andreas W.

2009

A product of Physica Verlag Heidelberg

ISBN 978-3-7908-2134-5

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About this book
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 faster finding of relevant products, stores profit from rising sales. All aspects of recommender systems are covered: 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 applications. Specific solutions for areas with strong privacy concerns, scalability issues for large collections of products, as well as algorithms to lessen the cold-start problem for a faster return on investment of recommender projects are addressed. This book describes all steps it takes to design, implement, and successfully operate a recommender system for a specific information platform.

Table of contents 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 Behavior-Based Recommender Services.- Algorithms for Behavior-Based Recommender Systems.- Case Study: Behavior-Based Recommender Services for Scientific Libraries.- Visualizing and Exploring Information Spaces. Discussion.