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Articles about Recommender Systems, Mahout and Hadoop Framework

Seeing that Recommender Systems has drawn a lot of attention in this past year, I would like to recommend further reading to those who want to obtain greater knowledge in the subject. I will indicate some articles that have helped me study the matter: G. Adomavicius and A. Tuzhilin Towards the Next Generation of Recommender Systems: A Survey of the State-of-the-Art and Possible Extensions. 2001 This article written by Adomavicius introduces Recommender Systems very well. It explains the main three types of these systems (Content-Based, Collaborative Filtering and Hybrid Recommendation). I also gives a formal mathematical definition of a Recommender Systems, which for some people can be great. I greatly recommend any other article you may find of Adomavicius. Laurent Candillier , Frank Meyer , Kris Jack, Françoise Fessant.A State-of-the-Art Recommender Systems. This paper also provides great overview of Recommender Systems and a very interesting comparison between