An Anti-Turing Test: Social Network Friends’ Recommendations

Iaakov Exman, Alex Krepch

2013

Abstract

A routine activity of social networks’ servers is to recommend possible friends that one may know and stimulate addition of these people to one’s contacts. An intriguing issue is how these recommendation lists are composed. This work investigates the main factors involved in the recommendation activity, in order to reproduce these lists including its time dependent characteristics. After a preliminary analysis of actual data collected from social networks, we propose relevant algorithms. Besides conventional approaches, such as friend-of-a-friend, two techniques of importance have not been emphasized in previous works: randomization and direct use of interestingness criteria. An automatic software tool to implement these techniques is proposed. Its architecture and implementation is discussed.

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in Harvard Style

Exman I. and Krepch A. (2013). An Anti-Turing Test: Social Network Friends’ Recommendations . In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software Knowledge - Volume 1: SKY, (IC3K 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-76-1, pages 55-61. DOI: 10.5220/0004641600550061


in Bibtex Style

@conference{sky13,
author={Iaakov Exman and Alex Krepch},
title={An Anti-Turing Test: Social Network Friends’ Recommendations},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software Knowledge - Volume 1: SKY, (IC3K 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={55-61},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004641600550061},
isbn={978-989-8565-76-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software Knowledge - Volume 1: SKY, (IC3K 2013)
TI - An Anti-Turing Test: Social Network Friends’ Recommendations
SN - 978-989-8565-76-1
AU - Exman I.
AU - Krepch A.
PY - 2013
SP - 55
EP - 61
DO - 10.5220/0004641600550061