This chapter describes the functions of a system proposed for the music hit recommendation from social network data base. This system carries out the automatic collection, evaluation and rating of music reviewers, the possibility for listeners to rate musical hits and recommendations deduced from auditor’s profiles in the form of regional internet radio. First, the system searches and retrieves...

People make three general types of judgments to express importance, preference, or likelihood and use them to choose the best among alternatives in the presence of environmental, social, political, and other influences. They base these judgments on knowledge in memory or from analyzing benefits, costs, and risks. From past knowledge, we sometimes can develop standards of excellence and poorness...

network scale-up is an indirect method for estimating the size of hidden, hard-to-count or high risk populations. social network size estimation is the first step in this method. the present study was conducted with the purpose of estimating the social network size of the tehran province residents and its determinants.maximum likelihood estimation was applied to estimate people's network sizes ...

New online evaluation networks come as results of social media networks. Ebay, Amazon, Stack Overflow, and Yelp are all examples of online networks where users submit their evaluation of a particular item whether it be another user, a product, etc. These networks allow a user to submit their opinion to be read and evaluated by other users in the network. These crowd-sourced reviews act as a met...

To understand users’ preference and business performance in terms of customer interest, rating prediction systems are wildly deployed on many social websites. These systems are usually based on the users past history of reviews and similar users. Such traditional recommendation systems suffer from two problems. The first is the cold start problem. In many cases, the system has no knowledge abou...

BACKGROUND Insight into the quality of health care is important for any stakeholder including patients, professionals, and governments. In light of a patient-centered approach, it is essential to assess the quality of health care from a patient's perspective, which is commonly done with surveys or focus groups. Unfortunately, these "traditional" methods have significant limitations that include...

forest management as one of the important source of production is crucial and critical. in taking over the forest resources as one of the most important of natural resources in the world, it is essential to consider local stakeholders to implement forest action plan for forest co-management. therefore, this study aims at achieving to proper management of forests based on evaluating the stakehol...

This research investigates how synergies between the Web and social networks can enhance the process of obtaining relevant and trustworthy information. A review of literature on personalised search, social search, recommender systems, social networks and trust propagation reveals limitations of existing technology in areas such as relevance, collaboration, task-adaptivity and trust. In response...

traumatic brain injury (tbi) is a common injury leading to child disability and is associated with a variety of long-term cognitive, social, and behavioral dysfunctions. emotion perception (ep) starts up an integral part of social communication is critical to achieve developmentally appropriate goals. this skill, which emerges relatively early in development, is driven by increasing connectivit...