Hybreed: A software framework for developing context-aware hybrid recommender systems

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

Volumn 24, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 121-174

  Hussein, Tim ^a   Linder, Timm ^a   Gaulke, Werner ^a   Ziegler, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Context aware recommendations; Distributed user models; Framework; Group recommendations; Recommender systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894087883     PISSN: 09241868     EISSN: 15731391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11257-012-9134-z     Document Type: Article

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