Application of Intelligent Recommendation for Agricultural Information: A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

With the ever-growing volume of online information, recommender system has been an effective strategy to overcome such information overload. Recommender systems are widely used in many web applications, such as e-commerce, news, agriculture and other fields. Agricultural informatization is an important driving force for the development of agricultural modernization. With the further improvement of agricultural informatization infrastructure construction, the use of modern information technology to achieve personalized agricultural information resource recommendation services and provide users with timely and effective information has become an effective solution. This article aims to provide a comprehensive review of recent research efforts on application of agricultural information based on intelligent recommender systems. Firstly, the method of content analysis used in this article to sort out the papers is introduced. Secondly, the background concepts of recommender systems and the key technologies are presented. Thirdly, the applications of recommender systems/technologies for agricultural information are described in detail. Finally, a summary and outlook on the application of recommender systems for agricultural information are provided.

Keywords

• Recommendation algorithm
• recommender system
• application model
• agricultural information
• collaborative filtering
• hybrid recommendation