Web3Recommend: Decentralised recommendations with trust and relevance

Web3Recommend is a decentralized Social Recommender System implementation that enables Web3 Platforms on Android to generate recommendations that balance trust and relevance. Generating recommendations in decentralized networks is a non-trivial problem because these networks lack a global perspective due to the absence of a central authority....

Leveraging Social Information To Improve Recommendation Novelty

In today’s digital world, users are often confronted with an abundance of information. Whether the user is looking to compare online prices for products, searching for new movies to watch or music to listen, the available information at hand exceeds the amount of information which the user wants to consider before making a choice. For this,...

MovieTweeters: An Interactive Interface to Improve Recommendation Novelty

This paper introduces and evaluates a novel interface, MovieTweeters. It is a movie recommendation system which incorporates social information with a traditional recommendation algorithm to generate recommendations for users. Few previous studies have investigated the influence of using social information in interactive<br/>interfaces to...