Autobiography of a theory : developing systems-centred theory
1. Curiosity: Early musings. 2. Trying to make it make sense: Discrimination and integration. 3. First theory: Group as a function of interdependence of parts. 4. Second theory: Group-as-a-whole. 5. Third theory: Bridge construct of role between individual and group. 6. Thinking systems: The gap between theory and practice. 7. A theory of living human systems: A meta-theory. Index.
Literary reading is an important activity for individuals and can be a long term commitment, making book choice an important task for book lovers and public library users. In this paper, we present a hybrid recommendation system to help readers decide which book to read next. We study book and author recommendations in a hybrid recommendation setting and test our algorithm on the LitRec data set. Our hybrid method combines two item-based collaborative filtering algorithms to predict books and authors that the user will like. Author predictions are expanded into a booklist that is subsequently aggregated with the former book predictions. Finally, the resulting booklist is used to yield the top-n book recommendations. By means of various experiments, we demonstrate that author recommendation can improve overall book recommendation.