Recommender systems are an effective solution to the information overload problem, specially in the online world where we are constantly faced with inordinately many choices. These systems try to find the items such as books or movies that match best with users’ preferences. Based on the different approaches to finding the items of interests to users, we can classify the recommender systems int...

The evaluation of recommender systems is key to the successful application of recommender systems in practice. However, recommender-systems evaluation has received too little attention in the recommender-system community, in particular in the community of research-paper recommender systems. In this paper, we examine and discuss the appropriateness of different evaluation methods, i.e. offline e...

Recommender systems are intelligent systems which make suggestions about user items. Recommender system has become an important part of any entertainment or marketing website. As the recommender system has become so important it is a hot topic for any researcher. First paper on Recommender System was published in year 1998 since then more than 300 papers have been published in many of different...

Abstract Recommender systems are information filtering used in many online applications like music and video broadcasting e-commerce platforms. They also increasingly being applied to facilitate software engineering activities. Following this trend, we witnessing a growing research interest on recommendation approaches that assist with modelling tasks model-based development processes. In paper...