Towards automatic recommendation of friend lists

Author

Bacon, Kelli ; Dewan, Prasun

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci., Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

11-14 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Facebook access-control lists, called friend lists, are difficult to create manually. Previous work on automating these lists has used friend details entered by the user. Our approach automates them by merging virtual friend cliques using certain heuristics that determine if two virtual friend cliques correspond to a single actual friend clique. A small user study found that our lists were more likely to be used by participants than existing automated lists.

Keywords

authorisation; recommender systems; social networking (online); Facebook access control lists; called friend lists; friend lists automatic recommendation; virtual friend cliques; Access control; Collaboration; Computer networks; Computer science; Face recognition; Facebook; Merging; Protection; Recommender systems; Social network services; Facebook; Social network; access control; clique; friend list; mixed-initiative; recommender system; social mining;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, 2009. CollaborateCom 2009. 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

978-963-9799-76-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-963-9799-76-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.4108/ICST.COLLABORATECOM2009.8397

Filename

5362633