Exploiting Social Ties for Search and Recommendation in Online Social Networks – Challenges and Chances

Grundlagen von Datenbanken 2010.

计算机科学;

Kerstin Bischoff

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PID  :  42756

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Online social networking is a huge trend. On Facebook or MySpace people connect with their friends or make new friends. They form new (indirect) connections by reading and adopting from other peoples' blogs or tweets. Simi- larly, in tagging systems like Delicious or Flickr people share tagged resources with friends or unknown, similar users. Of- ine social networks have long been studied in sociology, epidemiology, etc. However, the new online networks oer new ways to revisit old theories as well as to nd emerging trends with respect to information diusion and sharing in the Web 2.0. The goal is to explore and exploit relational ties in a way to enable the mining of useful knowledge and eective information propagation/diusion. Assuming no or only potential ties explicitly given, the focus is rst on the analysis of collaborative tagging and its potentials for user proling, recommendations and search. Some rst related studies, approaches and ideas for future work address the identication and exploitation of weak and strong ties in