Recommending people to people: The nature of reciprocal recommenders with a case study in online dating

User Modelling and User-Adapted Interaction

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 447-488

  Pizzato, Luiz ^a   Rej, Tomasz ^a   Akehurst, Joshua ^a   Koprinska, Irena ^a   Yacef, Kalina ^a   Kay, Judy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Online dating; Reciprocity; Recommender systems

Indexed keywords

CONTENT-BASED; E-COMMERCE WEBSITES; LARGE DATASET; ONLINE DATING; RECIPROCITY;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84887433780     PISSN: 09241868     EISSN: 15731391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11257-012-9125-0     Document Type: Article

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