FriendRank: Friend Recommender System for SNS

Accession number;06A0481748
Title;FriendRank: Friend Recommender System for SNS
Author; TANIKAWA KYOHEI (Osaka Univ.) OTSUBO MASANORI (Osaka Univ.) HIJIKATA YOSHINORI (Osaka Univ.) NISHIDA SHOGO (Osaka Univ.)
Journal Title;Proceedings of the Annual Conference on JSAI (CD-ROM)
Journal Code:X0580B
ISSN:
VOL.20th;NO.;PAGE.3D4-1(2006)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.2, REF.3
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;Recently there is a big growth of social networking service (SNS). This service allows users to introduce their friends to others. We propose a system which provides friend recommendation for SNS. In this system, firstly we focus on the target user's friends on SNS. Then we select their friends on SNS, we mean friends of the target user's friends, as recommendation candidates. This system gives a score to the strength of the relationship between the user and each candidate, considering the link structure and the content of the friend introduction description. We call this score FriendRank. Finally it finds person who may be the user's acquaintance or person who may share common interests with the user from the candidates. (author abst.)