Big Data Recommender Systems : Recent trends and advances

This timely volume combines experimental and theoretical research on big data recommender systems to help computer scientists develop new concepts and methodologies for complex applications.

It includes original scientific contributions in the form of theoretical foundations, comparative analysis, surveys, case studies, techniques and tools.

The authors give special attention to key topics such as data filtering and cleaning techniques for recommendations, novelty and diversity, privacy issues, security threats and their mitigation, trust, cold start, sparsity, scalability, application domains, and recommender system evaluations.