Introduction to Recommender Systems

Summary: Hands-on tutorial on recommender systems for data-management researchers, emphasizing practical implementation and evaluation. Covers collaborative filtering, rules-based systems, and information filtering, with guidance on integrating these methods into scalable data pipelines for database-backed systems. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4163
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 8.5137983e-05
Overall Rank: 2,487 | 82.94%
DOI: 10.1145/1376616.1376776

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Joseph A. Konstan (University of Minnesota)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{konstan_sigmod08,
        title = {{Introduction to Recommender Systems}},
        author = {Konstan, Joseph A.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376776},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376776},
        year = {2008}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,333	Ricardo: Integrating R and Hadoop	2010	SIGMOD	0.0001112858
3,608	Group Recommendation: Semantics and Efficiency	2009	VLDB	7.2609441e-05
4,350	SocialScope: Enabling Information Discovery on Social Content Sites	2009	CIDR	6.7499856e-05
5,822	From del.icio.us to x.qui.site: Recommendations in Social Tagging Sites	2008	SIGMOD	6.0754684e-05
8,278	Building Community-Centric Information Exploration Applications on Social Content Sites	2009	SIGMOD	5.4574671e-05
11,786	GIANT: Scalable Creation of a Web-scale Ontology	2020	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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