Behavioral data mining to produce novel and serendipitous friend recommendations in a social bookmarking system

Matteo Manca (), Ludovico Boratto () and Salvatore Carta ()
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Matteo Manca: Università di Cagliari
Ludovico Boratto: Università di Cagliari
Salvatore Carta: Università di Cagliari

Information Systems Frontiers, 2018, vol. 20, issue 4, No 11, 825-839

Abstract: Abstract In the last few years, social media systems have experienced a fast growth. The amount of content shared in these systems increases fast, leading users to face the well known “interaction overload” problem, i.e., they are overwhelmed by content, so it becomes difficult to come across interesting items. To overcome this problem, social recommender systems have been recently designed and developed in order to filter content and recommend to users only interesting items. This type of filtering is usually affected by the “over-specialization” problem, which is related to recommendations that are too similar to the items already considered by the users. This paper proposes a friend recommender system that operates in the social bookmarking application domain and is based on behavioral data mining, i.e., on the exploitation of the users activity in a social bookmarking system. Experimental results show how this type of mining is able to produce accurate friend recommendations, allowing users to get to know bookmarked resources that are both novel and serendipitous. Using this approach, the impact of the “interaction overload” and the “over-specialization” problems is strongly reduced.

Keywords: Social bookmarking; Friend recommendation; Behavioral data mining; Novelty; Serendipity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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