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Emergence of scale-free leadership structure in social recommender systems
The study of the organization of social networks is important for
understanding of opinion formation, rumor spreading, and the emergence of
trends and fashion. This paper reports empirical analysis of networks extracted
from four leading sites with social functionality (Delicious, Flickr, Twitter
and YouTube) and shows that they all display a scale-free leadership structure.
To reproduce this feature, we propose an adaptive network model driven by
social recommending. Artificial agent-based simulations of this model highlight
a "good get richer" mechanism where users with broad interests and good
judgments are likely to become popular leaders for the others. Simulations also
indicate that the studied social recommendation mechanism can gradually improve
the user experience by adapting to tastes of its users. Finally we outline
implications for real online resource-sharing systems
Towards a comprehensive requirements architecture for privacy-aware social recommender systems
Social recommendations have been rapidly adopted as important components in social network sites. How-ever, they assume a cooperative relationship between parties involved. This assumption can lead to the creation of privacy issues and new opportunities for privacy infringements. Traditional recommendation techniques fail to address these issues, and as a con-sequence the development of privacy-aware coopera-tive social recommender systems give rise to an im-portant research gap. In this paper we identify key problems that arise from the privacy dimension of so-cial recommendations and propose a comprehensive requirements architecture for building privacy-aware cooperative social recommender systems. Copyright Š 2010, Australian Computer Society, Inc
Network-Based Models for Social Recommender Systems
With the overwhelming online products available in recent years, there is an increasing need to filter and deliver relevant personalized advice for users. Recommender systems solve this problem by modelling and predicting individual preferences for a great variety of items such as movies, books or research articles. In this chapter, we explore rigorous network-based models that outperform leading approaches for recommendation. The network models we consider are based on the explicit assumption that there are groups of individuals and of items, and that the preferences of an individual for an item are determined only by their group memberships. The accurate prediction of individual user preferences over items can be accomplished by different methodologies, such as Monte Carlo sampling or Expectation-Maximization methods, the latter resulting in a scalable algorithm which is suitable for large datasets
Network-based models for social recommender systems
With the overwhelming online products available in recent years, there is an
increasing need to filter and deliver relevant personalized advice for users.
Recommender systems solve this problem by modeling and predicting individual
preferences for a great variety of items such as movies, books or research
articles. In this chapter, we explore rigorous network-based models that
outperform leading approaches for recommendation. The network models we
consider are based on the explicit assumption that there are groups of
individuals and of items, and that the preferences of an individual for an item
are determined only by their group memberships. The accurate prediction of
individual user preferences over items can be accomplished by different
methodologies, such as Monte Carlo sampling or Expectation-Maximization
methods, the latter resulting in a scalable algorithm which is suitable for
large datasets
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weHelp: A Reference Architecture for Social Recommender Systems
Recommender systems have become increasingly popular. Most of the research on recommender systems has focused on recommendation algorithms. There has been relatively little research, however, in the area of generalized system architectures for recommendation systems. In this paper, we introduce weHelp: a reference architecture for social recommender systems â systems where recommendations are derived automatically from the aggregate of logged activities conducted by the system's users. Our architecture is designed to be application and domain agnostic. We feel that a good reference architecture will make designing a recommendation system easier; in particular, weHelp aims to provide a practical design template to help developers design their own well-modularized systems
A Theory-Driven Design Framework for Social Recommender Systems
Social recommender systems utilize data regarding usersâ social relationships in filtering relevant information to users. To date, results show that incorporating social relationship data â beyond consumption profile similarity â is beneficial only in a very limited set of cases. The main conjecture of this study is that the inconclusive results are, at least to some extent, due to an under-specification of the nature of the social relations. To date, there exist no clear guidelines for using behavioral theory to guide systems design. Our primary objective is to propose a methodology for theory-driven design. We enhance Walls et al.âs (1992) IS Design Theory by introducing the notion of âapplied behavioral theory,â as a means of better linking theory and system design. Our second objective is to apply our theory-driven design methodology to social recommender systems, with the aim of improving prediction accuracy. A behavioral study found that some social relationships (e.g., competence, benevolence) are most likely to affect a recipientâs advice-taking decision. We designed, developed, and tested a recommender system based on these principles, and found that the same types of relationships yield the best recommendation accuracy. This striking correspondence highlights the importance of behavioral theory in guiding system design. We discuss implications for design science and for research on recommender systems
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