Software Ecosystem Platform for Recommendation Systems

• André Abdalla Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
• Victor Ströele Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
• Fernanda Campos Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
• José Maria N. David Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
• Regina Braga Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

The need to recommend resources in many different application domains and to develop solutions focused on recommender systems (RS) components reuse create an interesting scenario for the adoption of Software Ecosystem (SECO) perspective. In this way, the problem addressed by this study is how to integrate the various methods of existing recommendation systems in a systematic and centralized way. This paper proposes R.ECOS, a reuse-based ecosystem platform for RS. The proposal evaluation was carried out through a case study. The results point to the solution feasibility, along with the platform components. The main contribution is the implementation of the platform that supports the proposed SECO.

Keywords: Recommender System Reuse, Software Ecosystem, Web Services