Collaborative filtering (CF) techniques are becoming very popular on the Internet and are widely used in several domains to cope with information overload. E-commerce sites use filtering systems to ...

Netflix in 2006 held an open competition to find the collaborative filtering algorithm that would best predict whether or not a user would like a particular film or TV show based on previous ratings.

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 659, Toward Computational Social Science: Big Data in Digital Environments (May 2015), pp. 290-306 (17 pages) Theoretical and ...