User-to-User Recommendation using the Concept of Movement Patterns: A Study using a Dating Social Network

Mohammed Al-Zeyadi, Frans Coenen, Alexei Lisitsa

2017

Abstract

Dating Social Networks (DSN) have become a popular platform for people to look for potential romantic partners. However, the main challenge is the size of the dating network in terms of the number of registered users, which makes it impossible for users to conduct extensive searches. DSN systems thus make recommendations, typically based on user profiles, preferences and behaviours. The provision of effective User-to-User recommendation systems have thus become an essential part of successful dating networks. To date the most commonly used recommendation technique is founded on the concept of collaborative filtering. In this paper an alternative approach, founded on the concept of Movement Patterns, is presented. A movement pattern is a three-part pattern that captures the “traffic” (messaging) between vertices (users) in a DSN. The idea is that these capture the behaviour of users within a DSN while at the same time capturing the associated profile and preference data. The idea has been built into a User-to-User recommender system, the RecoMP system. The system has been evaluated, by comparing its operation with a collaborative filtering systems (the RecoCF system), using a data set from the Chinese Jiayuan.com DSN comprising 548,395 vertices. The reported evaluation demonstrates that very successful results can be produced, a best average F-score value of 0.961.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Al-Zeyadi M., Coenen F. and Lisitsa A. (2017). User-to-User Recommendation using the Concept of Movement Patterns: A Study using a Dating Social Network.In Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KDIR, ISBN 978-989-758-271-4, pages 173-180. DOI: 10.5220/0006494601730180

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kdir17,
author={Mohammed Al-Zeyadi and Frans Coenen and Alexei Lisitsa},
title={User-to-User Recommendation using the Concept of Movement Patterns: A Study using a Dating Social Network},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KDIR,},
year={2017},
pages={173-180},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006494601730180},
isbn={978-989-758-271-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KDIR,
TI - User-to-User Recommendation using the Concept of Movement Patterns: A Study using a Dating Social Network
SN - 978-989-758-271-4
AU - Al-Zeyadi M.
AU - Coenen F.
AU - Lisitsa A.
PY - 2017
SP - 173
EP - 180
DO - 10.5220/0006494601730180