Modeling preferences in a distributed recommender system

Abstract

A good way to help users finding relevant items on document platforms consists in suggesting content in accordance with their preferences. When implementing such a recommender system, the number of potential users and the confidential nature of some data should be taken into account. This paper introduces a new P2P recommender system which models individual preferences and exploits them through a user-centered filtering algorithm. The latter has been designed to deal with problems of scalability, reactivity, and privacy. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.