The Fourth International Workshop on Trusted Collaboration

Research Article

Towards automatic recommendation of friend lists

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.COLLABORATECOM2009.8397,
        author={Kelli Bacon and Prasun Dewan},
        title={Towards automatic recommendation of friend lists},
        proceedings={The Fourth International Workshop on Trusted Collaboration},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={TRUSTCOL},
        year={2009},
        month={12},
        keywords={Social network clique recommender system friend list Facebook access control mixed-initiative social mining},
        doi={10.4108/ICST.COLLABORATECOM2009.8397}
    }
    
  • Kelli Bacon
    Prasun Dewan
    Year: 2009
    Towards automatic recommendation of friend lists
    TRUSTCOL
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/ICST.COLLABORATECOM2009.8397
Kelli Bacon1, Prasun Dewan1
  • 1: Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

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.