Recommender systems : introduction. Recommender system concepts. Basic recommendation methods. Recommender system applications -- Recommender systems : methods and algorithms. Social network-based recommender systems. Tag-aware recommender systems. Fuzzy technique-enhanced recommender systems. Tree similarity-based recommender systems. Group recommender systems. Cross-domain recommender systems. User preference drift-aware recommender systems. Visualization in recommender systems -- Recommender systems : software and applications. Telecom products/services recommender systems. Recommender system for small and medium-sized businesses finding business partners. Recommender system for personalized e-learning. Recommender system for real estate property investment.

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