Flock of Birds Approach for Building a Book Recommendation System

The book is an evolved version of a research thesis carried out under my supervision. The book will serve as a reference guide to faculty, research scholars & professionals interested in the research domain of recommender systems.

Education Ph.D., Computer Engineering, Faculty of Technology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India, 2011; M.Tech (Master of Technology), Computer Engineering, Degree with Honours, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India, 2005; BE (Bachelor of Engineering), Computer Engineering, Degree with Honours, Maharishi Dayanand University, Haryana, India, 2003. Career Dr. Kumar is an Assistant professor in Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Delhi Technological University (formerly, Delhi College of Engineering) Delhi, India since August 2008. She has an accomplished career demonstrating consistent success as an academician and researcher with an extensive background in teaching a wide range of under-graduate and post-graduate computer engineering courses, advising and guiding students in projects and scholarly activities. Her research interests are in the area of web technology, text mining, sentiment analysis, recommender systems, social & semantic Web, and analytics of user-generated big-data. She has many publications in various international journals/conferences to her credit and has also co-authored book chapters within her domain of interest. She is actively involved in research activities as the editorial review board member for international journals, session chair & technical program committee member for international conferences and providing research supervision at under-graduate, post-graduate and doctorate levels. She has “Best paper awards” to her credit at International Conferences and also delivered expert talks in her research area. She has visited foreign universities like Imperial College, London and University of Cambridge, UK. Memberships Life member of Indian Society For Technical Education (ISTE) and Computer Society of India (CSI), India; Member of International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology (IACSIT), Singapore; Member of International Association of Engineers (IAENG) & IAENG Society of Computer Science, Hong Kong; Member of Internet Computing Community (ICC), Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC), India. Address Office: Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Delhi Technological University, Shahbad Daulatpur, Main Bawana Road, New Delhi, India -110042 Contact Personal e-mail: akshi.kumar@gmail.com Official e-mail: akshikumar@dce.ac.in