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Social network analysis emerged as an important research topic in sociology decades ago, and it has also attracted scientists from various fields of study like psychology, anthropology, geography and economics. In recent years, a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-08-01 Mohammad Dehghan Bahabadi , Alireza Hashemi Golpayegani , Leila Esmaeili

How do the ratings of critics and amateurs compare and how should they be combined? Previous research has produced mixed results about the first question, while the second remains unanswered. We have created a new, unique dataset, with wine…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Pantelis P. Analytis , Karthikeya Kaushik , Stefan Herzog , Bahador Bahrami , Ophelia Deroy

Despite recommender systems play a key role in network content platforms, mining the user's interests is still a significant challenge. Existing works predict the user interest by utilizing user behaviors, i.e., clicks, views, etc., but…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Xuanji Xiao , Huaqiang Dai , Qian Dong , Shuzi Niu , Yuzhen Liu , Pei Liu

Socially-based recommendation systems have recently attracted significant interest, and a number of studies have shown that social information can dramatically improve a system's predictions of user interests. Meanwhile, there are now many…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Ko-Jen Hsiao , Alex Kulesza , Alfred Hero

Recommender systems have become an essential component of many online platforms, providing personalized recommendations to users. A crucial aspect is embedding techniques that convert the high-dimensional discrete features, such as user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Maolin Wang , Xinjian Zhao , Wanyu Wang , Sheng Zhang , Jiansheng Li , Bowen Yu , Binhao Wang , Shucheng Zhou , Dawei Yin , Qing Li , Ruocheng Guo , Xiangyu Zhao

Being able to recommend links between users in online social networks is important for users to connect with like-minded individuals as well as for the platforms themselves and third parties leveraging social media information to grow their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Mustafa Toprak , Chiara Boldrini , Andrea Passarella , Marco Conti

Recommendations Systems have been identified to be one of the integral elements of driving sales in e-commerce sites. The utilization of opinion mining data extracted from trends has been attempted to improve the recommendations that can be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Dinuka Ravijaya Piyadigama , Guhanathan Poravi

We study a model of user decision-making in the context of recommender systems via numerical simulation. Our model provides an explanation for the findings of Nguyen, et. al (2014), where, in environments where recommender systems are…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Guy Aridor , Duarte Goncalves , Shan Sikdar

Social network websites, such as Facebook, YouTube, Lastfm etc, have become a popular platform for users to connect with each other and share content or opinions. They provide rich information for us to study the influence of user's social…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Sanjay Purushotham , Yan Liu , C. -C. Jay Kuo

The use of recommender systems has increased dramatically to assist online social network users in the decision-making process and selecting appropriate items. On the other hand, due to many different items, users cannot score a wide range…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Saman Forouzandeh , Mehrdad Rostami , Kamal Berahmand

Recommendations Systems allow users to identify trending items among a community while being timely and relevant to the user's expectations. When the purpose of various Recommendation Systems differs, the required type of recommendations…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Dinuka Ravijaya Piyadigama , Guhanathan Poravi

Recommender ecosystems are an emerging subject of research. Such research examines how the characteristics of algorithms, recommendation consumers, and item providers influence system dynamics and long-term outcomes. One architectural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Anas Buhayh , Elizabeth McKinnie , Robin Burke

Traditional recommender systems aim to estimate a user's rating to an item based on observed ratings from the population. As with all observational studies, hidden confounders, which are factors that affect both item exposures and user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yaochen Zhu , Jing Yi , Jiayi Xie , Zhenzhong Chen

Data and algorithm sharing is an imperative part of data and AI-driven economies. The efficient sharing of data and algorithms relies on the active interplay between users, data providers, and algorithm providers. Although recommender…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Peter Müllner , Stefan Schmerda , Dieter Theiler , Stefanie Lindstaedt , Dominik Kowald

Artificial Intelligence is being employed by humans to collaboratively solve complicated tasks for search and rescue, manufacturing, etc. Efficient teamwork can be achieved by understanding user preferences and recommending different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Lakshita Dodeja , Pradyumna Tambwekar , Erin Hedlund-Botti , Matthew Gombolay

Recommender systems shape online interactions by matching users with creators content to maximize engagement. Creators, in turn, adapt their content to align with users preferences and enhance their popularity. At the same time, users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Lukas Schüepp , Carmen Amo Alonso , Florian Dörfler , Giulia De Pasquale

Social reward as a form of community recognition provides a strong source of motivation for users of online platforms to engage and contribute with content. The recent progress of text-conditioned image synthesis has ushered in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Arman Isajanyan , Artur Shatveryan , David Kocharyan , Zhangyang Wang , Humphrey Shi

The abundance of user-generated data in social media has incentivized the development of methods to infer the latent attributes of users, which are crucially useful for personalization, advertising and recommendation. However, the current…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Richard J. Oentaryo , Ee-Peng Lim , Freddy Chong Tat Chua , Jia-Wei Low , David Lo

Finding pertinent information is not limited to search engines. Online communities can amplify the influence of a small number of power users for the benefit of all other users. Users' information foraging in depth and breadth can be…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-07-01 Linyuan Lu , Yi-Cheng Zhang , Chi Ho Yeung , Tao Zhou

A routine activity of social networks servers is to recommend candidate friends that one may know and stimulate addition of these people to one's contacts. An intriguing issue is how these recommendation lists are composed. This work…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Iaakov Exman , Alex Krepch