An approach to social recommendation for context-aware mobile services

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Biancalana, Claudio ^a   Gasparetti, Fabio ^a   Micarelli, Alessandro ^a   Sansonetti, Giuseppe ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Social recommender system; Ubiquitous computing; User modeling

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; CONTEXT OF USE; CONTEXT-AWARE MOBILE SERVICES; CULTURAL EVENTS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; INFORMATION NEED; LOCAL SEARCH; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATION; POINTS OF INTEREST; SOCIAL RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; USER ACTIVITY; USER MODELING; USER REVIEWS;

LOCATION BASED SERVICES; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84873670541     PISSN: 21576904     EISSN: 21576912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2414425.2414435     Document Type: Article

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