Although recommendation systems have become a vital research area in the fields of cognitive science, approximation theory, information retrieval and management sciences, they still require improvements to make recommendation methods more effective and intelligent. Intelligent Techniques in Recommendation Systems: Contextual Advancements and New Methods is a comprehensive collection of research on the latest advancements of intelligence techniques and their application to recommendation systems and how this could improve this field of study.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, ICDCIT 2015, held in Bhubaneswar, India, in February 2015. The 12 revised full papers presented together with 30 short papers and 9 invited talks in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 221 submissions. The papers cover topics such as distributed computing and algorithms; internet technologies and Web services; secure computing and communication; cloud computing; information retrieval and recommender systems and societal applications.