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SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Whom should I trust?: the impact of key figures on cold start recommendations
Generating adequate recommendations for newcomers is a hard problem for a recommender system (RS) due to lack of detailed user profiles and social preference data. Empirical evide...
Patricia Victor, Chris Cornelis, Ankur Teredesai, ...
AAAI
2006
14 years 1 months ago
Trust Representation and Aggregation in a Distributed Agent System
This paper considers a distributed system of software agents who cooperate in helping their users to find services, provided by different agents. The agents need to ensure that th...
Yonghong Wang, Munindar P. Singh
WINE
2007
Springer
182views Economy» more  WINE 2007»
14 years 6 months ago
Mechanism Design on Trust Networks
We introduce the concept of a trust network—a decentralized payment infrastructure in which payments are routed as IOUs between trusted entities. The trust network has directed ...
Arpita Ghosh, Mohammad Mahdian, Daniel M. Reeves, ...
RECSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Using a trust network to improve top-N recommendation
Top-N item recommendation is one of the important tasks of recommenders. Collaborative filtering is the most popular approach to building recommender systems which can predict ra...
Mohsen Jamali, Martin Ester