Efficient book recommendation system based on a MapReduce model

Abstract

Today it's been getting hard to find books suitable for the purpose among a lot of books published every day. There are so many kinds of books which are more than one hundred million and huge amounts of books are published every day. Therefore, readers are getting hard to find the suitable books for them. In this paper, we propose a book recommendation system that recommends the suitable books for readers. In addition, we introduce finding relation between books in a way of looking for other titles of books mentioned in a book. The titles of books are regarded as relation data. It is used for building relation database using the MapReduce model and it will be served to readers. © (2013) Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland.