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

In the real world, when we seek our friends' opinions on various items or events, we request
verbal social recommendations. It has been observed that we often turn to our friends for …

This paper is concerned with how to make efficient use of social information to improve
recommendations. Most existing social recommender systems assume people share similar …

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, which aims to systematically leverage the social relationships
between users as well as their past behaviors for automatic recommendation, attract much …

Recently, social recommendation becomes a hot research direction, which leverages social
relations among users to alleviate data sparsity and cold-start problems in recommender …

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 …

Due to leveraging social relationships between users as well as their past social behavior,
social recommendation becomes a core component in recommendation systems. Most …

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

The significance of social-enhanced recommender systems is increasing, along with its
practicality, as online reviews, ratings, friendship links, and follower relationships are …