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Contextual Model-Based Collaborative Filtering For Recommender Systems, Dennis E. Bachmann

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Recommender systems have dramatically changed the way we consume content. Internet applications rely on these systems to help users navigate among the ever-increasing number of choices available. However, most current systems ignore that user preferences can change according to context, resulting in recommendations that do not fit user interests. Context-aware models have been proposed to address this issue, but these models have problems of their own. The ever-increasing speed at which data are generated presents a scalability challenge for single-model approaches. Moreover, the complexity of these models prevents small players from adapting and implementing contextual models that meet their needs. …