Collaborative Filtering and Content-Based Systems

In this chapter, the two most widely used types of recommender systemsRecommender system, namely the collaborative filteringCollaborative filtering method and the content-based system, along with a few of their important sub-types are discussed in this chapter. There are two types of collaborative methods, namely the neighborhood-based and model-basedModel-based methods. The chapter discusses what are the features of and differences between the two methods. The basic components of the content-based systems are also discussed. Both the systems have their advantages and disadvantages which are also discussed here.