REFEREE: An open framework for practical testing of recommender systems using ResearchIndex

Summary: REFEREE framework for testing recommender systems on ResearchIndex. Hybrid PD-Live fuses content features (author, title, abstract) with collaborative signals and citations; real-world, scalable metrics emphasize user buy-in over offline accuracy. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8831
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2002
Pagerank: 6.2885419e-05
Overall Rank: 4,308 | 70.04%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,600	AWESOME – A Data Warehouse-based System for Adaptive Website Recommendations	2004	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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