Blockchain Technology for Mobile Applications Recommendation Systems

Abstract

The interest in the blockchain technology has been increasing since its inception and it has been applied to many fields and sectors. The blockchain technology creates a decentralized environment where no third party controls the data and transaction. Mobile apps recommendation has been extensively used to recommend apps to mobile users. For example, Android-based recommendation applications have been developed to recommend other mobile apps for download depending on user’s preferences and mobile context. Theserecommendations help users discover apps by referring to the experiences of other users. Due to the collection of a large amount of data and user information, there is a problemof insecurity and user’s privacy that are prone to be attacked. To address this issue the blockchain technology can be incorporated to assure cryptographic safety. In this paper,we present a survey of the on-going mobile app recommendations and e-commerce technology trend to address how the blockchain can be incorporated into the collaborativefiltering recommendation systems to enable the users to set up a secured data, which implies the importance of user privacy preference on personalized app recommendations.