What is Model-Based Methods

This chapter introduces Collaborative filtering-based recommendation systems, which has become an integral part of E-commerce applications, as can be observed in sites like Amazon.com. It will present several techniques that are reported in the literature to make useful recommendations, and study their limitations. The chapter also lists the issues that are currently open and the future directions that may be explored to address those issues. Furthermore, the authors hope that understanding of these limitations and issues will help build recommendation systems that are of high accuracy and have few false positive errors (which are products that are recommended, though the user does not like them).