A Connection-Centric Survey of Recommender Systems Research
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Recommender systems attempt to reduce information overload and retain customers by selecting a subset of items from a universal set based on user preferences. While research in recommender systems grew out of information retrieval and filtering, the topic has steadily advanced into a legitimate and challenging research area of its own. Recommender systems have traditionally been studied from a content-based filtering vs. collaborative design perspective. Recommendations, however, are not delivered within a vacuum, but rather cast within an informal community of users and social context. Therefore, ultimately all recommender systems make connections among people and thus should be surveyed from such a perspective. This viewpoint is under-emphasized in the recommender systems literature. We therefore take a connection-oriented viewpoint toward recommender systems research. We posit that recommendation has an inherently social element and is ultimately intended to connect people either directly as a result of explicit user modeling or indirectly through the discovery of relationships implicit in extant data. Thus, recommender systems are characterized by how they model users to bring people together: explicitly or implicitly. Finally, user modeling and the connection-centric viewpoint raise broadening and social issues--such as evaluation, targeting, and privacy and trust--which we also briefly address.
Based on the comments from reviewers, we have made modifications to our article, including the following: Shifted the focus of the survey completely to recommender system research rather than recommendation and personalization and subsequently changed the title to "A Connection-Centric Survey of Recommender Systems Research." Now only cite the most seminal works in this area and as a result have reduced the references significantly from over 200 to 120
Based on the comments from reviewers, we have made modifications to our article, including the following: Shifted the focus of the survey completely to recommender system research rather than recommendation and personalization and subsequently changed the title to "A Connection-Centric Survey of Recommender Systems Research." Now only cite the most seminal works in this area and as a result have reduced the references significantly from over 200 to 120