Cloud-based Recommendation Systems: Applications and Solutions

Abstract

Recommender systems have become extremely common in recent years, and are applied in a variety of applications. They help businesses increase their sales and customer satisfaction. More and more computing applications including recommender systems, are being deployed as cloud computing services. This papers presents some of the most common recommendation applications and solutions which follow SaaS, PaaS or other cloud computing service models. They are provided both from academia and business domain and use recent data mining, machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques. The tendency of these kind of applications is towards SaaS service model which seems the most appropriate especially for businesses