Recommendation systems as an information and technology tool for virtual research teams

Abstract

The paper analyzes options of concept interpretation of “e-Science” and its author’s definition as a systemically integrated complex of computer information telecommunication and social and communicative technologies, which ensure the fulfillment of functions and the solution of the actual tasks of science in the information society. The basic principles of the modern concept of a “virtual scientific team” are considered. It is analyzed the creation problems of effective information and technological tools for the comfortable and qualitative implementation of information and communication processes in the social and communication environments of virtual scientific teams that conduct research on the platform of e-Science. The main tendencies of using recommender systems are highlighted for an effective implementation of information and communication processes in virtual scientific teams. A description of the functional capabilities and the basic algorithms of work of the recommender system “Information assistant of a scientist” is presented, which supports the implementation of processes for effective information support of researchers in the virtual scientific teams.