Bad side of eCommerce recommendation systems: Overemphasis on hits and blockbusters
Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 15:35
in Mathematics & Economics
Recommender systems like those at Amazon, Netflix, and Apple's iTune Store work against niche products and tend to direct customers to blockbuster hits, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of Management Science, the flagship journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS(R)).
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