Mobile recommender systems: An overview of technologies and challenges

Abstract: The use of mobile devices in combination with the rapid growth of the internet has generated an information overload problem. Recommender systems is a necessity to decide which of the data are relevant to the user. However in mobile devices there are different factors who are crucial to information retrieval, such as the location, the screen size and the processor speed. This paper gives an overview of the technologies related to mobile recommender systems and a more detailed description of the challenged faced.