Multimedia Tools and Applications

, Volume 75, Issue 21, pp 13299–13315 | Cite as

Tag-based personalized recommendation in social media services

  • Majdi Rawashdeh
  • Mohammed F. Alhamid
  • Jihad Mohamad Alja’am
  • Awny Alnusair
  • Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
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Abstract

Users of ambient intelligence environments have been overwhelmed by the huge numbers of social media available, thus identifying the social media tailored to the user’s need is becoming an important question to be discussed. This paper adapts the Katz proximity measure, for the use in social tagging system, to help users in ambient environment find relevant media suited to their interests. The method models the ternary relations among user, resource and tag as a weighted, undirected tripartite graph, then apply the Katz proximity measure to tripartite graph. Experiments on two real datasets are implemented and compared with many state-of-the-art algorithms. The experimental results prove that the adaptation of the Katz algorithm with the tripartite structure yields a significant improvement, and successfully ranks relevant search results according to the user’s interests.

Keywords

Recommendation Personalization Social tagging Folksonomy 

Notes

Acknowledgments

This publication was made possible by a grant from the Qatar National Research Fund under its award NPRP 09-052-5-003. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Qatar National Research Fund.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Majdi Rawashdeh
    • 1
  • Mohammed F. Alhamid
    • 2
  • Jihad Mohamad Alja’am
    • 3
  • Awny Alnusair
    • 4
  • Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
    • 5
  1. 1.Division of EngineeringNew York University Abu DhabiAbu DhabiUnited Arab Emirates
  2. 2.College of Computer and Information Sciences (CCIS)King Saud UniversityRiyadhSaudi Arabia
  3. 3.Department of Computer Science and EngineeringQatar UniversityDohaQatar
  4. 4.School of Sciences - InformaticsIndiana UniversityKokomoUSA
  5. 5.Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory (MCRLab), School of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceUniversity of OttawaOttawaCanada

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