Collaborative filtering in a scholarly context

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Georgios Papadopoulos, georgios@atypon.com, Atypon Systems, Inc, 5201 Great America Parkway, Suite 510, Santa Clara, CA 95054
Collaborative filtering is the technical term for the "other users who bought this book also bought these books" feature popularized by Amazon. Atypon has been tracking user behavior and experimenting with various algorithms since July 2005 and deployed the first implementation in July 2006 and a full implementation in late 2006. We have gathered ample data on the usefulness of such a feature specifically for scientific publications and how it can be best utilized in conjunction with other discovery mechanisms such as search.