Implementing Recommender Systems using Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery Tools

Abstract

The current research offers a novel use of machine learning strategies to create a recommendation system. At recent era, recommender systems (RSs) have been used widely in e-commerce, entertainment purposes, and search engines. In more general, RSs are set of algorithms designed to recommend relevant items to users (movies to watch, books to read, products to buy, songs to listen, and others). This article discovers the different characteristics and features of many approaches used for recommendation systems in order to filter and prioritize the relevant information and work as a compass for searching. Recommender engines are crucial in some companies as they can create a big amount of income when they are effective or be a way to stand out remarkably from other rivals. As a proof of the importance of recommender engine, it can be stated that Netflix arrange a challenge (the “Netflix prize”) where the mission was to create a recommender engine that achieves better than its own algorithm with a prize of 1 million dollars to win.