USING GRIDS TO SUPPORT INFORMATION FILTERING SYSTEMS - A Case Study of Running Collaborative Filtering Recommendations on gLite

Leandro N. Ciuffo, Elisa Ingrà

2009

Abstract

Today’s business becomes increasingly computational-intense. Grid computing is a powerful paradigm for running ever-larger workloads and services. Commercial users have been attracted by this technology, which can potentially be exploited by industries and SMEs to offer new services with reduced costs and higher performance. This work aims at presenting a “gridified” implementation of a Recommender System based on the classic Collaborative Filtering algorithm. It also introduces the core services of the gLite middleware and discusses the potential benefits of using Grids to support the development of such systems.

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N. Ciuffo L. and Ingrà E. (2009). USING GRIDS TO SUPPORT INFORMATION FILTERING SYSTEMS - A Case Study of Running Collaborative Filtering Recommendations on gLite . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-87-6, pages 12-18. DOI: 10.5220/0001845300120018


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis09,
author={Leandro N. Ciuffo and Elisa Ingrà},
title={USING GRIDS TO SUPPORT INFORMATION FILTERING SYSTEMS - A Case Study of Running Collaborative Filtering Recommendations on gLite},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2009},
pages={12-18},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001845300120018},
isbn={978-989-8111-87-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - USING GRIDS TO SUPPORT INFORMATION FILTERING SYSTEMS - A Case Study of Running Collaborative Filtering Recommendations on gLite
SN - 978-989-8111-87-6
AU - N. Ciuffo L.
AU - Ingrà E.
PY - 2009
SP - 12
EP - 18
DO - 10.5220/0001845300120018