Workshop on recommender systems and the social web

The emergence of what is called the social web and the continuing stream of new applications and community-based platforms including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and others had a substantial impact on recommender systems research and practice over the ...

This workshop brought researchers from academia and industry together to share recent advances and discuss research directions for recommender systems in social media and Web 2.0. With social media sites becoming ubiquitous, the challenges and ...

In recent years, with the proliferation of the social web, users are exposed to an intensively growing social overload. Social recommender systems aim to address this overload and are becoming integral part of virtually any leading website, playing a ...