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Generating predictive movie recommendations from trust in social networks

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This paper presents FilmTrust, a website that uses trust in web-based social networks to create predictive movie recommendations, and shows that these recommendations are more accurate than other techniques when the user's opinions about a film are divergent from the average.
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Social networks are growing in number and size, with hundreds of millions of user accounts among them. One added benefit of these networks is that they allow users to encode more information about their relationships than just stating who they know. In this work, we are particularly interested in trust relationships, and how they can be used in designing interfaces. In this paper, we present FilmTrust, a website that uses trust in web-based social networks to create predictive movie recommendations. Using the FilmTrust system as a foundation, we show that these recommendations are more accurate than other techniques when the user's opinions about a film are divergent from the average. We discuss this technique both as an application of social network analysis, as well as how it suggests other analyses that can be performed to help improve collaborative filtering algorithms of all types.

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Evaluating collaborative filtering recommender systems

TL;DR: The key decisions in evaluating collaborative filtering recommender systems are reviewed: the user tasks being evaluated, the types of analysis and datasets being used, the ways in which prediction quality is measured, the evaluation of prediction attributes other than quality, and the user-based evaluation of the system as a whole.
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Recommender systems

TL;DR: This special section includes descriptions of five recommender systems, which provide recommendations as inputs, which the system then aggregates and directs to appropriate recipients, and which combine evaluations with content analysis.
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Explaining collaborative filtering recommendations

TL;DR: This paper presents experimental evidence that shows that providing explanations can improve the acceptance of ACF systems, and presents a model for explanations based on the user's conceptual model of the recommendation process.
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Supporting trust in virtual communities

TL;DR: In this article, a trust model that is grounded in real-world social trust characteristics, and based on a reputation mechanism, or word-of-mouth, is proposed for the virtual medium.
Dissertation

Computing and applying trust in web-based social networks

TL;DR: It is shown that, in the case where the user's opinion is divergent from the average, the trust-based recommended ratings are more accurate than several other common collaborative filtering techniques.
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