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Table 1: Taxonomy of recommender applications, organized by application model.
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The term "recommender systems" evolved to replace and broaden the use of the term "collaborative filtering" because the latter
term refers to a specific algorithm for recommending. The term “ recommender system” refers both to systems that specifically
recommend lists of products and to those that help users evaluate products. Previously, these systems were distinguished as
systems that provide "recommendations," those that provide "predictions" of user preference, and those that provide "community
opinion." The recommender systems research community has embraced all three component