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Recommender Systems: an Experience with GenNet health-care Social Network

Authors:
Cleyton Magalhães
Ellen Souza
Correia Neto Jorge
Guilherme Vilar

Keywords: Recommender systems; friend-of-friend; social network; SNS, GenNet, healt-care

Abstract:
With the information overload of the Internet in the recent years, recommender systems arise as a solution to indicate content to users and to facilitate their decision processes. In the social network sites context, recommender systems have been used mainly to recommend people profiles to other users. This study analyzes GenNet social network, a collaborative virtual environment that aims health promotion to patients with physical disorders caused by genetic diseases. A recommender system that suggests people profiles to users is implemented and tested, in order to improve the level of collaboration and communication

Pages: 276 to 279

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: February 24, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-252-3

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from February 24, 2013 to March 1, 2013