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What is easyrec?
easyrec is an open source recommendation system providing a low (or no) barrier entrance to high quality recommendations to any portal provider in search for personalization. The access to easyrec is provided through Web services assuring an easy and quick integration. Immediate deployment is possible for web sites (e.g. scripts enclosing API calls, placed in the client's pages, see below). easyrec is not yet another algorithmic framework directed at domain experts with programming skills. Its focus is simple integration; In most cases, the web-based administration interface should be sufficient for configuring easyrec.
What do I actually get when I install the easyrec application?
easyrec is a Java web application running on tomcat with a MySQL database backend. The most important aspect of the application is a Web service (available as REST and SOAP) that allows to send data to and retrieve recommendations from easyrec. A Web based administration interface lets you configure its behavior and analyze the state of the application. One installation can service multiple operators, each of whom can manage recommendations for any number of tenants (e.g. webshops).
Which licenses are available for the use of easyrec?
easyrec is available as an open source project under the GPL license model at sourceforge. For those users who do not want to publish their sources when they develop and distribute proprietary extensions, commercial license-models are provided on a peer-to-peer basis (please contact us at ...)
