Collaborative Filtering and Recommender Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Every day, we interact with predictive systems that seek to model our behavior, monitor our activities, and make recommendations: Whom will we befriend? What articles will we like? Who influences us in our social network? And do our activities change over time? Models that answer such questions drive important real-world systems, and at the same time are of basic scientific interest to economists, linguists, and social scientists, among others. Recommender Systems and Collaborative Filtering algorithms seek to model such problems, while incorporating ideas from related areas including social network analysis, time-series modeling, and natural language processing.

The open access journal Algorithms will host a Special Issue on “Collaborative Filtering Algorithms”. The goal of the Special Issue is to collect new ideas and techniques related to the design and analysis of recommender systems and collaborative filtering algorithms, covering topics including approximation algorithms, scalability, usability and interpretability, and deployment.

Dr. Julian J. McAuley
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Algorithms is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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