Personalized recommender system on whom to follow in twitter

Proceedings - 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing, BDCloud 2014 with the 7th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking, SocialCom 2014 and the 4th International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications, SustainCom 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 326-333

  Islam, Masudul ^a   Ding, Chen ^a   Chi, Chi Hung ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Learning to rank; Ranking algorithm; Recommender system; Social Network; Twitter

Indexed keywords

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

LEARNING MACHINES; LEARNING TO RANK; PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; RANKING ALGORITHM; RECOMMENDATION STRATEGIES; SOCIAL GRAPHS; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES; TWITTER;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84924363314     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BDCloud.2014.84     Document Type: Conference Paper

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