Research Problems in Recommender systems

With continuous growth of web applications around the globe, it is a challenge to find the suitable information needed for the user in a limited time.Number of handheld mobile devices is increasing and most of the business revolves around the correct search of the data. Without a proper recommender system it is very difficult to get required information from the web applications. Web applications use recommender systems to provide suitable data to users based on their choices and interests. For different kinds of needs different types of recommender systems have been proposed. Two most basic types of recommender systems are collaborative filtering recommender system and content based recommender system. Sometimes these two recommender systems are combined to increase the efficiency of a recommender system The generated new recommender system is known as hybrid recommender system. The purpose of this paper is to help readers understand the basics of recommender systems. This paper identifies key areas of research openly available for new researchers. After reading this paper new researchers can understand basic problems of recommender systems which need improvement and hence they can make those problems their area of research.