Community-Based Service Location

Munindar P Singh and Bin Yu and Mahadevan Venkatraman

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Summary

This article describes the relationship between web pages that allow communities of agents to provide referrals to one another. Communities are defined to be clusters of related documents that are interconnected by many links. The "Social Network" of a set of web pages provides information about a particular site's reputation. Agents may be built to provide referrals (or binary recommendations) about the services provided by other sites, allowing other agents feed on this information to make their decisions. Agents are identified to be either principals or 'pivots'. Pivot agents provide links outside their community, and act as bridges tying the network together. Their participation is critical for the success of any social network.

Methods

No algorithmic details, simply a high level overview of the recommendations propigating across the network is provided.

Keywords

Social network, pivot, principal, community, agent, referral, clustering

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Bibtex Entry

@misc{ singh00,

author = "Munindar P Singh and Bin Yu and Mahadevan Venkatraman",

title = "Community-Based Service Location",

publisher = "Communications of the ACM",

year = "2000",

url = "www4.ncsu.edu/~byu/papers/p49-singh.pdf"

}

 

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