“…These systems, especially the k-nearest neighbor collaborative filtering (CF)-based approaches, are achieving widespread success on the Web [7]. Various recommender systems have been extensively applied in ecommerce and e-business [8,9], but their adoption in the context of e-government has received less attention. This study presents a recommender system design, named Intelligent Business Partner Locator (IBPL), which aims to help government effectively recommend the right business partners (e.g., international buyers, agents, distributors, and retailers) to individual businesses (e.g., exporters) based on their requirements, interests and business product categories.…”