Collaborative filtering is the most popular approach to build recommender systems and has been successfully employed in many applications. However, it cannot make recommendations ...
What role can social networking websites play in supporting large-scale group action and change? We are proposing to explore their use in supporting individual reduction in person...
Jennifer Mankoff, Deanna Matthews, Susan R. Fussel...
The processes by which communities come together, attract new members, and develop over time is a central research issue in the social sciences -- political movements, professiona...
Lars Backstrom, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Jon M. Kle...
In this paper, we present a multi-agent system implementing a fully distributed Social Network System supporting user profiles as FOAF profiles. This system is built around the ide...
Collaborative filtering requires a centralized rating database. However, within a peer-to-peer network such a centralized database is not readily available. In this paper, we pro...
Jun Wang, Johan A. Pouwelse, Reginald L. Lagendijk...