UTILIZING THE POTENTIALS OF BIG DATA IN LIBRARY ENVIRONMENTS IN NIGERIAN FOR RECOMMENDER SERVICES

The big data revolution has gained global attention and initiated creative innovations in every field and libraries as engines of access to information have also been affected by this new trend. Libraries in this part of the world have not utilized the amazing potential of big data in library services. In this time, when various terms such as algorithms age, petabytes age, data age, etc. are been used to describe the activities initiated by machine learning, industries and organizations can achieve much by incorporating inspiring and innovative tools to improve services and performance. In this vein libraries in Nigeria are expected against all odds to make their services more interactive, attractive, innovative, and exciting by utilizing cloud technologies and machine learning techniques to create recommender services. This paper titled “Utilizing the Potentials of Big Data in Nigeria Library Environments by Recommender Services”, focuses on the concept and characteristics of big data and its importance in complementing traditional library services, areas for applying big data systems in libraries, the concept of recommender systems and how it works, adopting recommender systems in libraries for maximum benefits, tools, and techniques for setting up big data recommender systems in libraries, challenges of big data recommender systems in libraries in Nigeria and strategies for overcoming big data challenges in library systems. The paper is based on a contextual analysis of literature from various scholarly works. The paper will also proffer recommendations based on the study

A paper recommender system based on user’s profile in big data scholarly

Users encounter a huge volume of papers in digital libraries and paper search engines such as IEEE Explore, ACM Digital library, Google scholar and etc. these high number of papers make some difficulties for researchers for finding proper information and items. Recommender systems contain successful tools for knowledge of users and identification of their priorities. These systems present a personalized proposal to users who seek to find a special kind of relevant data or their priorities through the big number of data. Recommendersystem based on personalization uses the user profile and in view of the fact that the user profile encompass information pertaining to the user priorities; so it is a very active district in data recovery. Recommendersystem is an attitude that presented in order to encounter difficulties caused by abundant data and it helps users to attain their goals quickly through huge number of data. In this paper, we have presented an approach that received entire of available information in a paper, and formed a profile for each user by short and long inquiries; this profile is personalized for user and then recommends the closest paperto the  user by the user profile. Findings indicate that suggested approach outperformsthe similar approaches.Keywords: recommender system; bigdata; user profile; content-based recommender system; hadoo

A contextual information based scholary paper recommender system using big data platform

Recommender systems for research papers have been increasingly popular. In the past 14 years more than 170 research papers,patents and webpageshave been published in this field. Scientific papers recommender systemsare trying to provide some recommendations to each user which are consistent with the users' personal interests based on performance, personal tastes and users behaviors.Since the volume of papers are growing day after day and the recommender systemshave not the ability for covering these huge volumes ofprocessing papers according to the users' preferences it is necessary to use parallel processing (mapping – reducing programming) for covering and fast processing of these volumes of papers. The suggested system for this research constitutes a profile for each paper which contains context information and the scope of paper. Then, the system will advise some papers to the user according to the user work domain and the papers domain. For implementing the system it has been used hadoop bed and the parallel programming because the volume of data was a part of a big data and the time was also an important factor. The performance of the suggested system was measured by the criteria such as user satisfaction and the accuracy and the results have been satisfactory.Keywords: Recommender systems; big data; Hadoop; contextual informatio

Recommender Systems and Repository Search: the Share.TEC Proposal

This paper presents a general overview of possible approaches for implementing recommender systems and describes a specific implementation in the context of the Share.TEC project, which aims to foster the sharing of digital resources in the Teacher Education field. An outline of the main functionalities is given, together with a brief technical description of how these have been implemented

Improving Online Education Using Big Data Technologies

In a world in full digital transformation, where new information and communication technologies are constantly evolving, the current challenge of Computing Environments for Human Learning (CEHL) is to search the right way to integrate and harness the power of these technologies. In fact, these environments face many challenges, especially the increased demand for learning, the huge growth in the number of learners, the heterogeneity of available resources as well as the problems related to the complexity of intensive processing and real-time analysis of data produced by e-learning systems, which goes beyond the limits of traditional infrastructures and relational database management systems. This chapter presents a number of solutions dedicated to CEHL around the two big paradigms, namely cloud computing and Big Data. The first part of this work is dedicated to the presentation of an approach to integrate both emerging technologies of the big data ecosystem and on-demand services of the cloud in the e-learning field. It aims to enrich and enhance the quality of e-learning platforms relying on the services provided by the cloud accessible via the internet. It introduces distributed storage and parallel computing of Big Data in order to provide robust solutions to the requirements of intensive processing, predictive analysis, and massive storage of learning data. To do this, a methodology is presented and applied which describes the integration process. In addition, this chapter also addresses the deployment of a distributed e-learning architecture combining several recent tools of the Big Data and based on a strategy of data decentralization and the parallelization of the treatments on a cluster of nodes. Finally, this article aims to develop a Big Data solution for online learning platforms based on LMS Moodle. A course recommendation system has been designed and implemented relying on machine learning techniques, to help the learner select the most relevant learning resources according to their interests through the analysis of learning traces. The realization of this system is done using the learning data collected from the ESTenLigne platform and Spark Framework deployed on Hadoop infrastructure

Розробка та дослідження моделей та програмних рішень для рекомендаційної системи вибору товарів масового вжитку

There have been proposed investigation of the problem of creating recommendations with technical description for building the Recommender System of consumer goods with help of modern algorithms, approaches, principles and contains the investigation of the most popular methods. It was defined, that the deployment of Recommender Systems is one of the rapidly developing areas for improving applied information technolog ies, tools for automatic generating offers service based on the investigation of the personal needs and profile of customers. It was investigated, that such systems have started to play a very important role in the fast growing Internet, as they help users to navigate in a large amount of information, because users are not able to analyze a large amount of information, because it is very difficult and takes a lot of time and effort, but due to such systems, namely Recommender Systems that are able to filter a large amount of information, and provide for users the information and recommendations their likes the problem can be solved and instead of providing the static information, when users search and, perhaps, buy products, Recommender Systems increase the degree of interactivity to expand the opportunities provided to the user. It was defined, that Recommendation systems form recommendations independently for each specific user based on past purchases and searches, and also on the basis of the behavior of other users with help of recommendation services, which collect different information about a person using several methods and at the same time all systems are shared. An overview of content-based, collaborative filtering and hybrid methods was performed. An overview of Alternating Least Squares and Singular Value Decomposition recommendation algorithms was performed. The design of the Recommender System of consumer goods software component was described. The main features of software implementation and programming tools for the system which is being developed were explained. The conclusions about the problems of Recommender Systems and the review of existing algorithms were made.Запропоновано дослідження проблеми створення рекомендацій, з технічним описом для побудови рекомендаційної системи для вибору товарів масового вжитку за допомогою сучасних алгоритмів, підходів, принципів і містить дослідження найбільш популярних методів. Було визначено, що впровадження рекомендаційних систем є однією з областей, які швидко розвиваються для вдосконалення прикладних інформаційних технологій, інструментів для автоматичного генерування пропозицій, заснованих на дослідженні особистих потреб і профілю клієнтів. Було досліджено, що такі системи почали грати дуже важливу роль в швидко зростаючому Інтернеті, оскільки вони допомагають користувачам орієнтуватися у великій кількості інформації, користувачі не можуть аналізувати великий обсяг інформації, адже це дуже складно і також вимагає багато часу і зусиль, але завдяки рекомендаційним системам, які можуть фільтрувати великий обсяг інформації і надавати користувачам інформацію і рекомендації, які їм подобаються, проблема може бути вирішена і замість надання статичної інформації, коли користувачі шукають, і можливо, купують продукти, такі системи збільшують ступінь інтерактивності для розширення можливостей, що надаються користувачеві. Було визначено, що рекомендаційні системи формують рекомендації самостійно для кожного конкретного користувача на основі минулих покупок і пошуків, а також на основі поведінки інших користувачів за допомогою служб рекомендацій, які збирають різну інформацію про людину, що використовує кілька методів, і в той же час всі системи є загальними. Було проведено огляд методів фільтрації на основі контенту, спільної фільтрації і гібридних методів. Було виконано огляд алгоритмів альтернативних найменших квадратів і сингулярного розкладання. Описана конструкція рекомендаційної системи програмного забезпечення для вибору товарів масового вжитку. Зроблено пояснення деяких можливостей програмної реалізації і інструментів програмування для розроблюваної системи. Зроблено висновки про проблеми рекомендаційних систем і огляд існуючих алгоритмів

Atas das Oitavas Jornadas de Informática da Universidade de Évora

Atas das Oitavas Jornadas de Informática da Universidade de Évora realizadas em Março de 2018