The College of Computer Science and Information Technology at the University of Karbala, the Department of Computer Science, held a panel discussion entitled (Implicit feedback information in recommendation systems)

The lecture was given by Dr. Mohsen Hassan Hussein, the lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, where the lecturer gave an introduction to the recommendation systems and their importance in the research side in addition to the economic side as they help to promote products of all kinds and as a result increase sales and profits. Recommendation systems can be defined as programs, tools and techniques used for the purpose of Providing suggestions to users of online shopping sites such as Amazon and sites for watching movies and videos such as YouTube, in addition to social networking sites. The lecturer also mentioned that the recommendation systems depend in their work primarily on the feedback information that is collected from users, and this information is either explicit as customer evaluations of products or is collected implicitly through monitoring the behavior of users within the sites. The seminar was attended by many scholars, researchers and those interested in this field.