全面地总结推荐系统的研究现状,旨在介绍网络推荐的算法思想、帮助读者了解这个研究领域.首先阐述了推荐系统研究的工业需求、主要研究机构和成果发表的期刊会议;在讨论了推荐问题的形式化和非形式化定义之后,对主流算法进行了分类和对比;最后总结了常用数据集和评测指标,领域的重难点问题和未来可能的研究热点.
This paper makes a comprehensive survey of the recommender system research aiming to facilitate readers to understand this field. First the research background is introduced, including commercial application demands, academic institutes, conferences and journals. After formally and informally describing the recommendation problem, a comparison study is conducted based on categorized algorithms. In addition, the commonly adopted benchmarked datasets and evaluation methods are exhibited and most difficulties and future directions are concluded.