Introduction to recommender systems

Substantial commercial interest focused attention on a variety of practical questions, including the speed with which recommendations could be generated, the scale of problems that could be addressed, and the assessment of the value of recommendations to the business itself or to the customers.

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and founder of the eCommerce Competence Center in Vienna. His research activities cover decision support systems, simulation, artificial intelligence, and Internet-based information systems, especially in the field of tourism. He earned an MS and PhD in computer science from the Technical University Vienna. He is a member of the strategic advisory board for the European research program IST, acts as the editor in chief of the journal Information