TY - GEN
T1 - Enhanced middleware for collaborative privacy in community based recommendations services
AU - Elmisery, Ahmed M.
AU - Doolin, Kevin
AU - Roussaki, Ioanna
AU - Botvich, Dmitri
N1 - Funding Information:
This work partially supported by the European Comission via the ICT FP7 SOCIETIES Integrated Project (No. 257493). Also it was partially supported from the Higher Education Authority in Ireland under the PRTLI Cycle 4 Programme, in the FutureComm Project (Serving Society: Management of Future Communications Networks and Services).
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Recommending communities in social networks is the problem of detecting, for each member, its membership to one of more communities of other members, where members in each community share some relevant features which guaranteeing that the community as a whole satisfies some desired properties of similarity. As a result, forming these communities requires the availability of personal data from different participants. This is a requirement not only for these services but also the landscape of the Web 2.0 itself with all its versatile services heavily relies on the disclosure of private user information. As the more service providers collect personal data about their customers, the growing privacy threats pose for their patrons. Addressing end-user concerns privacy-enhancing techniques (PETs) have emerged to enable them to improve the control over their personal data. In this paper, we introduce a collaborative privacy middleware (EMCP) that runs in attendees' mobile phones and allows exchanging of their information in order to facilities recommending and creating communities without disclosing their preferences to other parties. We also provide a scenario for community based recommender service for conferences and experimentation results.
AB - Recommending communities in social networks is the problem of detecting, for each member, its membership to one of more communities of other members, where members in each community share some relevant features which guaranteeing that the community as a whole satisfies some desired properties of similarity. As a result, forming these communities requires the availability of personal data from different participants. This is a requirement not only for these services but also the landscape of the Web 2.0 itself with all its versatile services heavily relies on the disclosure of private user information. As the more service providers collect personal data about their customers, the growing privacy threats pose for their patrons. Addressing end-user concerns privacy-enhancing techniques (PETs) have emerged to enable them to improve the control over their personal data. In this paper, we introduce a collaborative privacy middleware (EMCP) that runs in attendees' mobile phones and allows exchanging of their information in order to facilities recommending and creating communities without disclosing their preferences to other parties. We also provide a scenario for community based recommender service for conferences and experimentation results.
KW - Clustering
KW - Community Recommendations
KW - Middleware
KW - Privacy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84868586727&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-94-007-5699-1_32
DO - 10.1007/978-94-007-5699-1_32
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84868586727
SN - 9789400756984
T3 - Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
SP - 313
EP - 328
BT - Computer Science and Its Applications, CSA 2012
T2 - 4th FTRA International Conference on Computer Science and Its Applications, CSA 2012
Y2 - 22 November 2012 through 25 November 2012
ER -