Paper Info
Title
USN: An Optimization Framework for User-centric Social Networks
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 the 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 as well as a preliminary evaluation of our framework. Our trace-driven experimentation with real datasets show that USN enhances the usability and satisfaction of the user while at the same time provides optimal system-choices for the performance of the network.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ICCSE.2012.83
C3S2E
Keywords
Field
DocType
social network,data comprehensibility,conflicting system-oriented objective,query dissemination,relevant social data,user-centric social networks,usn framework,novel framework,conflicting objective,query user w,social network portal,optimization framework,multi objective optimization,user interfaces
World Wide Web,Social network,Computer science,Usability,Multi-objective optimization,Human–computer interaction,User interface,Recall,Perception,Mobile telephony,User-centered design,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1949-0828
0
0.34
References 
Authors
19
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Panayiotis Andreou112115.54
Panagiotis Germanakos220738.40
Andreas Konstantinidis3122.45
Dimosthenis Georgiadis422.43
Marios Belk514224.62
George Samaras61043128.49