Personal Recommender System

PERSONAL RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS

MAN562

February 18, 2015

Abstract.
              In the recent years, the web searches have witnessed a dramatic change where the people have had so much on the internet such that the searches have become extremely difficult. The users of the internet on a regular basis have found it difficult to use and find the required information. There has been also the claim that some of the data sources are unpopular which makes the finding of the information very difficult. The personal recommender system is responsible for building the gap between the objects and the users. The system recommends to the users the areas they might be interested in during browsing. The system is responsible for solving the problem that is being experienced today of information overload (Hang, Hsiao, 2013).

              There are different algorithms, and they are responsible for producing the different systems. There is the system that collaborates and filters, the system that is based on content, the hybrid system, and the structure based system. All the four systems are determined by the different algorithms operating in each (Pu, Chen, & Hu, 2012). 

Introduction
              This recommender system is a subclass of the information filtering system that is responsible for predicting and rating the weight of an item as per the user requirements. In the recent years, the systems have become extremely important and are applied in a variety of areas. These areas include books, movies, and news. As the user searches a given book, then the system is responsible for giving the various options to a book or the goods he is searching. The systems have simplified the work of searching on the internet. The recommender systems are also available for experts, jokes insurance, online dating and twitter followers (Pu, Chen, & Hu, 2012).

              There are major two ways that the recommender system shows its results. One of the ways is collaborative and also the content based filtering. The collaborative system bases its research and recommendations from the users past behavior or past searches and uses this to base its search results. It gives search results related to the previous searches done by the user. The content-based system gives the users areas that are related to his field of search and gives the related fields. The most recent system is the one that combines the two and is called the hybrid based system. There are, however, distinct differences that can be seen in the two types of systems (Hang, Hsiao, 2013).