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RECSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
FriendSensing: recommending friends using mobile phones
We propose FriendSensing, a framework that automatically suggests friends to mobile social-networking users. Using short-range technologies (e.g., Bluetooth) on her mobile phone, ...
Daniele Quercia, Licia Capra
RECSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Rating aggregation in collaborative filtering systems
Recommender systems based on user feedback rank items by aggregating users’ ratings in order to select those that are ranked highest. Ratings are usually aggregated using a weig...
Florent Garcin, Boi Faltings, Radu Jurca, Nadine J...
RECSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
TagiCoFi: tag informed collaborative filtering
Besides the rating information, an increasing number of modern recommender systems also allow the users to add personalized tags to the items. Such tagging information may provide...
Yi Zhen, Wu-Jun Li, Dit-Yan Yeung
RECSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Harnessing the power of "favorites" lists for recommendation systems
We propose a novel collaborative recommendation approach to take advantage of the information available in user-created lists. Our approach assumes associations among any two item...
Maryam Khezrzadeh, Alex Thomo, William W. Wadge
RECSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Generating transparent, steerable recommendations from textual descriptions of items
We propose a recommendation technique that works by collecting text descriptions of items and using this textual aura to compute the similarity between items using techniques draw...
Stephen J. Green, Paul Lamere, Jeffrey Alexander, ...
RECSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Assessment of conversation co-mentions as a resource for software module recommendation
Conversation double pivots recommend target items related to a source item, based on co-mentions of source and target items in online forums. We deployed several variants on the d...
Daniel Xiaodan Zhou, Paul Resnick
RECSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Ordering innovators and laggards for product categorization and recommendation
Different buyers exhibit different purchasing behaviors. Some rush to purchase new products while others tend to be more cautious, waiting for reviews from people they trust. In...
Sarah K. Tyler, Shenghuo Zhu, Yun Chi, Yi Zhang
RECSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Preference elicitation with subjective features
Utility or preference elicitation is a critical component in many recommender and decision support systems. However, most frameworks for elicitation assume a predefined set of fe...
Craig Boutilier, Kevin Regan, Paolo Viappiani
RECSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Rate it again: increasing recommendation accuracy by user re-rating
A common approach to designing Recommender Systems (RS) consists of asking users to explicitly rate items in order to collect feedback about their preferences. However, users have...
Xavier Amatriain, Josep M. Pujol, Nava Tintarev, N...