Mobile recommender systems: An overview of technologies and challenges
It addresses the need for effective recommender systems in mobile contexts, but it is an incremental overview rather than a novel solution.
This paper tackles the problem of information overload on mobile devices by providing an overview of technologies and challenges in mobile recommender systems, which are necessary to filter relevant data for users.
The use of mobile devices in combination with the rapid growth of the internet has generated an information overload problem. Recommender systems is a necessity to decide which of the data are relevant to the user. However in mobile devices there are different factors who are crucial to information retrieval, such as the location, the screen size and the processor speed. This paper gives an overview of the technologies related to mobile recommender systems and a more detailed description of the challenged faced.