Context-aware recommender systems

Recommender Systems Handbook, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 191-226

  Adomavicius, G ^a   Tuzhilin, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; MOBILE COMMERCE; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

CONTEXT-AWARE RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; PERSONALIZATIONS; POST-FILTERING; PRE-FILTERING;

INFORMATION FILTERING;

EID: 84956723884     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-7637-6_6     Document Type: Chapter

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