Consumer TechRecSysEmerging Standard

SCITEPRESS Paper: Mobile App Recommender System for Consumer Apps

Think of this as a smarter app store shelf that learns what each person actually likes and then puts the most relevant apps right in front of them instead of making them scroll through thousands of options.

8.0
Quality
Score

Executive Brief

Business Problem Solved

Helps consumers quickly find relevant mobile applications in a crowded app marketplace, reducing decision fatigue and search time while increasing the likelihood they install apps that match their needs and preferences.

Value Drivers

Improved app discovery and user satisfactionHigher conversion from browsing to installReduced time spent searching through irrelevant appsPotential increase in engagement and retention for app stores or publishers

Strategic Moat

If deployed commercially, the moat would come from behavioral data on users’ app installs, ratings, and usage patterns combined with tuned recommendation models embedded into the app store workflow.

Technical Analysis

Model Strategy

Classical-ML (Scikit/XGBoost)

Data Strategy

Unknown

Implementation Complexity

Medium (Integration logic)

Scalability Bottleneck

Real-time personalization at scale (latency and feature computation for millions of users and apps).

Market Signal

Adoption Stage

Early Majority

Differentiation Factor

Academic/experimental recommender focused specifically on mobile app selection in consumer marketplaces, likely exploring tailored features (e.g., app metadata, user behavior signals) rather than generic product recommendations.