PocketLens: Toward a personal recommender system

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 437-476

  Miller, Bradley N ^a,b   Konstan, Joseph A ^a,c   Riedl, John ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b LUTHER COLLEGE   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative Filtering; Peer to Peer Networking; Privacy; Recommender Systems

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKING; PRIVACY; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; DATA PRIVACY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; SECURITY OF DATA;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 3843049042     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1010614.1010618     Document Type: Article

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