Social recommender systems: Recommendations in support of E-learning

International Journal of Distance Education Technologies

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 30-47

  Rafaeli, Sheizaf ^a   Dan Gur, Yuval ^a   Barak, Miri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative filtering; Friends; Knowledge sharing; Neighbors; QSIA; Recommendations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INTRANETS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; FRIENDS; KNOWLEDGE SHARING; NEIGHBOURS; QSIA; RECOMMENDATIONS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 14944349569     PISSN: 15393100     EISSN: 15393119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jdet.2005040103     Document Type: Article

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