@proceedings{jannach2014proceedings, bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, http://dblp.org}, editor = {Jannach, Dietmar and Freyne, Jill and Geyer, Werner and Guy, Ido and Hotho, Andreas and Mobasher, Bamshad}, interhash = {a1a704ec9c98e6031a1444c6eccc7c0a}, intrahash = {09cb7c63e60bd3c5e6773c9c871a8aba}, publisher = {CEUR-WS.org}, series = {{CEUR} Workshop Proceedings}, title = {Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Recommender Systems and the Social Web (RSWeb 2014) co-located with the 8th {ACM} Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2014), Foster City, CA, USA, October 6, 2014}, url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1271}, volume = 1271, year = 2014 } @inproceedings{jannach2014sixth, author = {Jannach, Dietmar and Freyne, Jill and Geyer, Werner and Guy, Ido and Hotho, Andreas and Mobasher, Bamshad}, bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, http://dblp.org}, booktitle = {Eighth {ACM} Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys '14, Foster City, Silicon Valley, CA, {USA} - October 06 - 10, 2014}, doi = {10.1145/2645710.2645786}, interhash = {b465a3695da123d6ee9de1675cb3d480}, intrahash = {5773f799bec72240eda5e6cfb6a03d7b}, pages = 395, title = {The sixth {ACM} RecSys workshop on recommender systems and the social web}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2645710.2645786}, year = 2014 } @proceedings{conf/recsys/2013rsweb, booktitle = {RSWeb@RecSys}, editor = {Mobasher, Bamshad and Jannach, Dietmar and Geyer, Werner and Freyne, Jill and Hotho, Andreas and Anand, Sarabjot Singh and Guy, Ido}, ee = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1066}, interhash = {31e724c09d1f4a4bbf013ecb8e1f6685}, intrahash = {aca768068f09003e97b51d48ec092ddc}, publisher = {CEUR-WS.org}, series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings}, title = {Proceedings of the Fifth ACM RecSys Workshop on Recommender Systems and the Social Web co-located with the 7th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2013), Hong Kong, China, October 13, 2013.}, url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1066}, volume = 1066, year = 2013 } @inproceedings{conf/recsys/MobasherJGH12, author = {Mobasher, Bamshad and Jannach, Dietmar and Geyer, Werner and Hotho, Andreas}, booktitle = {RecSys}, crossref = {conf/recsys/2012}, editor = {Cunningham, Padraig and Hurley, Neil J. and Guy, Ido and Anand, Sarabjot Singh}, ee = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2365952.2366039}, interhash = {d211f9c4cbcc5e748c848b4b55f81226}, intrahash = {fe34d757dd2ec79a40d2baa55115898d}, isbn = {978-1-4503-1270-7}, pages = {345-346}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {4th ACM RecSys workshop on recommender systems and the social web.}, url = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/recsys/recsys2012.html#MobasherJGH12}, year = 2012 } @proceedings{Mobasher:2012:2365934, abstract = {The new opportunities for applying recommendation techniques within Social Web platforms and applications as well as the various new sources of information which have become available in the Web 2.0 and can be incorporated in future recommender applications are a strong driving factor in current recommender system research for various reasons:

(1) Social systems by their definition encourage interaction between users and both online content and other users, thus generating new sources of knowledge for recommender systems. Web 2.0 users explicitly provide personal information and implicitly express preferences through their interactions with others and the system (e.g. commenting, friending, rating, etc.). These various new sources of knowledge can be leveraged to improve recommendation techniques and develop new strategies which focus on social recommendation.

(2) New application areas for recommender systems emerge with the popularity of the Social Web. Recommenders cannot only be used to sort and filter Web 2.0 and social network information, they can also support users in the information sharing process, e.g., by recommending suitable tags during folksonomy development.

(3) Recommender technology can assist Social Web systems through increasing adoption and participation and sustaining membership. Through targeted and timely intervention which stimulates traffic and interaction, recommender technology can play its role in sustaining the success of the Social Web.

(4) The Social Web also presents new challenges for recommender systems, such as the complicated nature of human-to-human interaction which comes into play when recommending people and can require more interactive and richer recommender systems user interfaces.

The technical papers appearing in these proceedings aim to explore and understand challenges and new opportunities for recommender systems in the Social Web and were selected in a formal review process by an international program committee.

Overall, we received 13 paper submissions from 12 different countries, out of which 7 long papers and 1 short paper were selected for presentation and inclusion in the proceedings. The submitted papers addressed a variety of topics related to Social Web recommender systems from the use of microblogging data for personalization over new tag recommendation approaches to social media-based personalization of news.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Mobasher, Bamshad and Jannach, Dietmar and Geyer, Werner and Hotho, Andreas}, interhash = {4a591caf39ca41da55a94a37c8c47074}, intrahash = {354947709c23c90b18dae862c46b2761}, isbn = {978-1-4503-1638-5}, location = {Dublin, Ireland}, note = 609126, publisher = {ACM}, title = {RSWeb '12: Proceedings of the 4th ACM RecSys workshop on Recommender systems and the social web}, year = 2012 } @inproceedings{Freyne:2011:WRS:2043932.2044014, abstract = {The exponential growth of the social web poses challenges and new opportunities for recommender systems. The social web has turned information consumers into active contributors creating massive amounts of information. Finding relevant and interesting content at the right time and in the right context is challenging for existing recommender approaches. At the same time, social systems by their definition encourage interaction between users and both online content and other users, thus generating new sources of knowledge for recommender systems. Web 2.0 users explicitly provide personal information and implicitly express preferences through their interactions with others and the system (e.g. commenting, friending, rating, etc.). These various new sources of knowledge can be leveraged to improve recommendation techniques and develop new strategies which focus on social recommendation. The Social Web provides huge opportunities for recommender technology and in turn recommender technologies can play a part in fuelling the success of the Social Web phenomenon.

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 }