Social Recommendations for Events
Toon De Pessemier, Jeroen Minnaert, Kris Vanhecke, Simon Dooms, Luc Martens · Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) · 2013
Due to an abundance of available events, selecting the most interesting events and deciding who to invite to attend these events becomes increasingly difficult.This paper describes the Outlife recommender, which assists in finding the ideal event by providing recommendations based on the user's personal preferences.For each event recommendation, the Outlife recommender suggests a group of friends to invite to the event.Conversely, the user can select a group of friends and receive group recommendations based on the preferences of all group members.Compared to traditional group recommenders, which assume the group composition is available as input, the Outlife recommender automatically composes the user's groups of best friends based on interaction behavior.A user evaluation showed that the composition of groups of friends is accurate and that the offered recommendations match the user's preferences.