@inproceedings{47c652b61a714a859428cf52125e04c0,
title = "A decentralized recommendation system based on self-organizing partnerships",
abstract = "Small World patterns have been found in many social and natural networks, and even in Peer-to-Peer topologies. In this paper, we analyze File Sharing applications that aggregate virtual communities of users exchanging data. In these domains, it is possible to define overlaying structures that we call {"}Preference Networksν that show self organized interest-based clusters. The relevance of this finding is augmented with the introduction of a proactive recommendation scheme that exploits this natural feature. The intuition behind this scheme is that a user would trust her network of {"}elective affinities{"} more than anonymous and generic suggestions made by impersonal entities.",
keywords = "Peer-to-Peer, Recommendation Management, Small World Networks, Social Networks",
author = "Giancarlo Ruffo and Rossano Schifanella and Enrico Ghiringhello",
year = "2006",
doi = "10.1007/11753810\_52",
language = "English",
isbn = "3540341927",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "618--629",
editor = "Thomas Plagemann and Burkhard Stiller and Cedric Westphal and Fernando Boavida and Edmundo Monteiro",
booktitle = "Networking 2006 - Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; Mobile and Wireless Com. Syst. - 5th Int. IFIP-TC6 Netw. Conf. Proc.",
address = "Germany",
note = "5th International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference, Networking 2006 ; Conference date: 15-05-2006 Through 19-05-2006",
}