INFSCI 2480/ISSP2280: Adaptive Information Systems

(Spring 2014, CRN 22720)

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Readings

The core course book

The following book will serve as the main course book. Almost all readings will be assigned from it. This book have been reserved for you at the Pitt ULS.

The Adaptive Web: Methods and Strategies of Web Personalization.
Brusilovsky, P., Kobsa, A., Neidl, W. (eds.)
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4321. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2007.

Get an electronic version of all papers from Springer-Verlag (Note: To access this book, students would need to be connected through PittNet / Wireless PittNet or logged-in through the Secure Remote access link)
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Additional Readings

The following books can serve as a good complement to the main course book. The first two extend the Recommender Systems component and the remaining two show how many techniques presented in the course book on conceptual level can be programmed using Python or Java introducing key concepts in a very clear and development-oriented way.

	Recommender Systems Handbook Ricci, F.; Rokach, L.; Shapira, B.; Kantor, P.B. (Eds.) Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2011 Order it from Springer.com Order it from amazon.com
	Recommender Systems: An Introduction Markus Zanker, Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Friedrich Cambridge University Press, 2011 Get it on Google Order it from amazon.com
	Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications Toby Segaran O'Reilly, 2007 360 pages Read this book online in Safari Books Get it from O'Relly Order it from amazon.com
	Collective Intelligence in Action Satnam Alag Manning Publications, 2008 425 pages Read this book online in Safari Books Order it from amazon.com