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

Indigo是加拿大最大的图书、礼品和特种玩具零售商，在加拿大所有10个省和一个地区都有门店，并通过其Indigo .ca网站提供在线销售。截至2015年3月28日，该公司经营着91家以chapter和Indigo为旗帜的超市，以及127家以Coles、Indigospirit、SmithBooks和the Book Company为旗帜的小型商店。该公司还拥有加拿大日历俱乐部有限合伙公司（“日历俱乐部”）50%的权益，该公司在加拿大各地的购物中心经营季节性售货亭和全年商店。

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.