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Cidf: A Clustering-Based Interaction-Driven Friending Algorithm For The Next-Generation Social Networks, Aadil Alshammari, Abdelmounaam Rezgui

Faculty Publications - Information Technology

Online social networks, such as Facebook, have been massively growing over the past decade. Recommender algorithms are a key factor that contributes to the success of social networks. These algorithms, such as friendship recommendation algorithms, are used to suggest connections within social networks. Current friending algorithms are built to generate new friendship recommendations that are most likely to be accepted. Yet, most of them are weak connections as they do not lead to any interactions. Facebook is well known for its Friends-of-Friends approach which recommends familiar people. This approach has a higher acceptance rate but the strength of the connections, …