A Social Trust Based Friend Recommender for Online Communities
Surya Nepal, Cécile L. Paris, Payam Aghaei Pour, Sanat Kumar Bista, Jill Freyne · 2013
Recommendations to connect like-minded people can result in increased engagement amongst members of online communities, thus playing an important role in their sustainability. We have developed a suite of algorithms for friend recommendations using a social trust model called STrust. In STrust, the