Learning personalized preference of strong and weak ties for social recommendation

• Main Authors: WANG, Xin, HOI, Steven C. H., ESTER, Martin, BU, Jiajun, CHEN, Chun
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Social Recommendation; Personalization; Strong and Weak Ties; User Behavior Modeling; Databases and Information Systems; Theory and Algorithms
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3655; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4657/viewcontent/p1601_wang.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Recent years have seen a surge of research on social recommendation techniques for improving recommender systems due to the growing influence of social networks to our daily life. The intuition of social recommendation is that users tend to show affinities with items favored by their social ties due...