Recommendation to Groups

Abstract. Recommender systems have traditionally recommended items to individual users, but there has recently been a proliferation of recommenders that address their recommendations to groups of users. The shift of focus from an individual to a group makes more of a difference than one might at first expect. This chapter discusses the most important new issues that arise, organizing them in terms of four subtasks that can or must be dealt with by a group recommender:

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ADAPTIVE
• Authors: Anthony Jameson, Barry Smyth
• Keywords: ADAPTIVE 2007, Individual Users, Internet Technology, Recommender Systems, first Expect