Today’s data-deluge motivates the need for new ways to provide people and organisations with access to the right information in the right time. In short, we need to develop more personalised forms of information access and discovery that are capable of understanding the needs of individuals and responding to these needs in a more targeted way.
Recommender systems represent one approach to developing more personalised information systems that have gained considerable traction online, particularly in an e-commerce context. Today, services like Amazon, iTunes, and Netflix help millions of people find what they are looking for by automatically recommending relevant items from a long tail of almost infinite possibilities.
