Research of social recommendation aims at exploiting social information to improve the
quality of a recommender system. It can be further divided into two classes. Explicit social …

Social recommendation problems have drawn a lot of attention recently due to the
prevalence of social networking sites. The experiments in previous literature suggest that …

Social-based recommender systems have been recently proposed by incorporating social
relations of users to alleviate sparsity issue of user-to-item rating data and to improve …

Social recommendation, which utilizes social relations to enhance recommender systems,
has been gaining increasing attention recently with the rapid development of online social …

Recommender systems with social networks have been well studied in recent years.
However, most of these methods ignore the social contextual information among users and …

Recent years have seen a surge of research on social recommendation techniques for
improving recommender systems due to the growing influence of social networks to our daily …

Online social platforms have provided a large amount of available information to
recommendation systems. With this intuition, social recommendation systems emerged and …

Social recommendation has been an active research topic over the last decade, based on
the assumption that social information from friendship networks is beneficial for improving …

Social recommender system, using social relation networks as additional input to improve
the accuracy of traditional recommender systems, has become an important research topic …

Using the social information among users in recommender system can partly solve the data
sparsely problems and significantly improve the performance of the recommendation …