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Brent R. Smith
Researcher at Amazon.com
Publications - 45
Citations - 12581
Brent R. Smith is an academic researcher from Amazon.com. The author has contributed to research in topics: Item bank & Session (web analytics). The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 45 publications receiving 11832 citations. Previous affiliations of Brent R. Smith include University of Washington & National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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Industry Report: Amazon.com Recommendations: Item-to-Item Collaborative Filtering.
TL;DR: This work compares three common approaches to solving the recommendation problem: traditional collaborative filtering, cluster models, and search-based methods, and their algorithm, which is called item-to-item collaborative filtering.
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Amazon.com recommendations: item-to-item collaborative filtering
TL;DR: Item-to-item collaborative filtering (ITF) as mentioned in this paper is a popular recommendation algorithm for e-commerce Web sites that scales independently of the number of customers and number of items in the product catalog.
Patent
Content personalization based on actions performed during a current browsing session
TL;DR: In this paper, various methods are disclosed for monitoring user browsing activities, and for using such information to provide session-specific item recommendations to users, and the recommended items may be displayed together with an option to individually deselect the recently viewed items on which the recommendations are based.
Patent
Use of product viewing histories of users to identify related products
TL;DR: In this article, a table is used to provide session-specific product recommendations to users that are based on the products viewed by the user during the current browsing session, and the table can also be used to supplement product detail pages with lists of related products.
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Two Decades of Recommender Systems at Amazon.com
Brent R. Smith,Greg Linden +1 more
TL;DR: This update to their original paper discusses some of the changes as Amazon has grown, which help customers discover items they might otherwise not have found.