A generalized stochastic block model for recommendation in social rating networks

RecSys'11 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 53-60

  Jamali, Mohsen ^a   Huang, Tianle ^a   Ester, Martin ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

clustering; link prediction; social recommendation; stochastic block model

Indexed keywords

AS-LINKS; BLOCK MODELS; BLOCKMODEL; CLUSTERING; EM CLUSTERING; GROUP MEMBERSHIPS; LINK PREDICTION; MIXTURE OF GAUSSIANS; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; REAL LIFE DATASETS; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL RATINGS; SOCIAL RECOMMENDATION; SOCIAL RELATIONS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FORECASTING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; RATING; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 82555166816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2043932.2043946     Document Type: Conference Paper

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