The goal of this one day workshop was to bring together researchers and practitioners to explore, discuss, and understand challenges and new opportunities for Recommender Systems and the Social Web. The workshop consisted both of technical sessions, in which selected participants presented their results or ongoing research, as well as informal breakout sessions on more focused topics.
Papers discussing various aspects of recommender system in the Social Web were submitted and selected for presentation and discussion in the workshop in a formal reviewing process: Case studies and novel fielded social recommender applications; Economy of community-based systems: Using recommenders to encourage users to contribute and sustain participation.; Social network and folksonomy development: Recommending friends, tags, bookmarks, blogs, music, communities etc.; Recommender systems mash-ups, Web 2.0 user interfaces, rich media recommender systems; Collaborative knowledge authoring, collective intelligence; Recommender applications involving users or groups directly in the recommendation process; Exploiting folksonomies, social network information, interaction, user context and communities or groups for recommendations; Trust and reputation aware social recommendations; Semantic Web recommender systems, use of ontologies or microformats; Empirical evaluation of social recommender techniques, success and failure measures
Full workshop details are available at http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~ssanand/RSWeb11/index.htm}, acmid = {2044014}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Freyne, Jill and Anand, Sarabjot Singh and Guy, Ido and Hotho, Andreas}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Recommender systems}, doi = {10.1145/2043932.2044014}, interhash = {6171f01a8f8cd063ec257cb4809801a6}, intrahash = {11fe6dd3da33f0aa0a40c998e5193ab8}, isbn = {978-1-4503-0683-6}, location = {Chicago, Illinois, USA}, numpages = {2}, pages = {383--384}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {RecSys '11}, title = {3rd workshop on recommender systems and the social web}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2043932.2044014}, year = 2011 } @inproceedings{freyne2007collecting, abstract = {The goal of this paper is to detail the integration of two "social Web" technologies - social search and social navigation - and to highlight the benefits of such integration on two levels. Firstly, both technologies harvest and harness "community wisdom" and in an integrated system each of the search and navigation components can benefit from the additional community wisdom gathered by the other when assisting users to locate relevant information. Secondly, by integrating search and browsing we facilitate the development of a unique interface that effectively blends search and browsing functionality as part of a seamless social information access service. This service allows users to effectively combine their search and browsing behaviors. In this paper we will argue that this integration provides significantly more than the simple sum of the parts.}, acmid = {1216312}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Freyne, Jill and Farzan, Rosta and Brusilovsky, Peter and Smyth, Barry and Coyle, Maurice}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces}, doi = {10.1145/1216295.1216312}, interhash = {871e012dc7b1c131d32480f1e3a655e7}, intrahash = {93fecd064cd42e0ea5f9dc06a9458d3c}, isbn = {1-59593-481-2}, location = {Honolulu, Hawaii, USA}, numpages = {10}, pages = {52--61}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Collecting community wisdom: integrating social search \& social navigation}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1216295.1216312}, year = 2007 } @incollection{citeulike:3149792, abstract = {The motivation behind many Information Retrieval systems is to identify and present relevant information to people given their current goals and needs. Learning about user preferences and access patterns recent technologies make it possible to model user information needs and adapt services to meet these needs. In previous work we have presented ASSIST, a general-purpose platform which incorporates various types of social support into existing information access systems and reported on our deployment experience in a highly goal driven environment (ACM Digital Library). In this work we present our experiences in applying ASSIST to a domain where goals are less focused and where casual exploration is more dominant; YouTube. We present a general study of YouTube access patterns and detail how the ASSIST architecture affected the access patterns of users in this domain.}, author = {Coyle, Maurice and Freyne, Jill and Brusilovsky, Peter and Smyth, Barry}, citeulike-article-id = {3149792}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70987-9\_12}, interhash = {487512d7286ca43ca9b96ee4a0efc198}, intrahash = {f75eb556b19abd7b399f2f27ae49cb1c}, journal = {Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems}, pages = {93--102}, posted-at = {2008-10-13 00:16:23}, priority = {2}, title = {Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube}, url = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/6h410u3w4836v866/}, year = 2008 } @inproceedings{freyne07, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Freyne, Jill and Farzan, Rosta and Brusilovsky, Peter and Smyth, Barry and Coyle, Maurice}, booktitle = {IUI '07: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces}, doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1216295.1216312}, interhash = {871e012dc7b1c131d32480f1e3a655e7}, intrahash = {88603ee0903b30dc642aebdaa6a22f93}, isbn = {1-59593-481-2}, location = {Honolulu, Hawaii, USA}, pages = {52--61}, publisher = {ACM Press}, title = {Collecting community wisdom: integrating social search \& social navigation}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1216312}, year = 2007 }