TOWARDS USER-CENTRIC SOCIAL NETWORKS

Panayiotis Andreou, Panagiotis Germanakos, Andreas Konstantinidis, Dimosthenis Georgiadis, Marios Belk, George Samaras

2012

Abstract

Social network portals, such as Facebook and Twitter, often discover and deliver relevant social data to a user’s query, considering only system-oriented conflicting objectives (e.g., time, energy, recall) and frequently ignoring the satisfaction of the individual “needs” of the query user w.r.t. its perceptual preference characteristics (e.g., data comprehensibility, working memory). In this paper, we introduce User-centric Social Network (USN), a novel framework that deals with the conflicting system-oriented objectives of the social network in the context of Multi-Objective Optimization and utilizes user-oriented objectives in the query dissemination/ acquisition process to facilitate decision making. We present the initial design of the USN framework and its major components. Our preliminary evaluation with real datasets shows that USN enhances the usability and satisfaction of the user while in parallel provides optimal system-choices for network performance.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Andreou P., Germanakos P., Konstantinidis A., Georgiadis D., Belk M. and Samaras G. (2012). TOWARDS USER-CENTRIC SOCIAL NETWORKS . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8565-08-2, pages 795-798. DOI: 10.5220/0003932007950798

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist12,
author={Panayiotis Andreou and Panagiotis Germanakos and Andreas Konstantinidis and Dimosthenis Georgiadis and Marios Belk and George Samaras},
title={TOWARDS USER-CENTRIC SOCIAL NETWORKS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2012},
pages={795-798},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003932007950798},
isbn={978-989-8565-08-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - TOWARDS USER-CENTRIC SOCIAL NETWORKS
SN - 978-989-8565-08-2
AU - Andreou P.
AU - Germanakos P.
AU - Konstantinidis A.
AU - Georgiadis D.
AU - Belk M.
AU - Samaras G.
PY - 2012
SP - 795
EP - 798
DO - 10.5220/0003932007950798