Introduction to Recommender Systems Handbook
Francesco Ricci, Lior Rokach and Bracha Shapira
Recommender Systems (RSs) are software tools and techniques providing
suggestions for items to be of use to a user. In this introductory chapter we briefly
discuss basic RS ideas and concepts. Our main goal is to delineate, in a coherent
and structured way, the chapters included in this handbook and to help the reader
navigate the extremely rich and detailed content that the handbook offers
