Developing a social and trust-based book recommender system for Indigo

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Indigo is Canada's largest book, gift, and specialty toy retailer, operating stores in all ten provinces and one territory in Canada and offering online sales through its indigo.ca website. As at March 28, 2015, the Company operated 91 superstores under the banners Chapters and Indigo and 127 small format stores under the banners Coles, Indigospirit, SmithBooks, and The Book Company. The Company also has a 50% interest in Calendar Club of Canada Limited Partnership ("Calendar Club"), which operates seasonal kiosks and year-round stores in shopping malls across Canada. Indigo seeks to innovate upon its products and services offerings by leveraging state-of-the art business analytics capabilities. To that end, they are designing a recommender system that will match potential customers and human recommenders, and match customers' preferences to other's reading lists. What this entails-incorporating social and trust based capabilities into traditional recommender system capabilities-is the focus of this proposed NSERC Engage Project.