Mendeley Recommender System: Experimental Results

Mendeley and the HPC Lab of ISTI-CNR collaborate for conceiving, designing and developing a recommender system for scientific papers. Mendeley provided a dataset of about 5,000 users and HPC Lab conceived two architectures for a recommender system. Those architectures were presented in "Collaboration with Mendeley - Research Activity Report" document (hereinafter the "research report"). Starting from those architecture specifications, the HPC Lab implemented a prototype of the recommender system. In particular, the system was developed according to the first of the two architectures. In this document HPC Lab describes the results obtained from the preliminary tests conducted with the recommender system prototype.