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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-018-04-0554</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">23085</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>H.3.5 - Online Information Services</subject>
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        <article-title>Understanding Microblog Users for Social Recommendation Based on Social Networks Analysis</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Ting</surname>
            <given-names>I-Hsien</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">iting@nuk.edu.tw</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Chang</surname>
            <given-names>Pei Shan</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Wang</surname>
            <given-names>Shyue-Liang</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan</addr-line>
        <institution>National University of Kaohsiung</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Kaohsiung</addr-line>
        <country>Taiwan</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: I-Hsien Ting (<email xlink:type="simple">iting@nuk.edu.tw</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2012</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>28</day>
        <month>02</month>
        <year>2012</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>18</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>554</fpage>
      <lpage>576</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/9169C365-9383-50F9-A46D-6C2AFDC7BF38">9169C365-9383-50F9-A46D-6C2AFDC7BF38</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/5504983">5504983</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>28</day>
          <month>09</month>
          <year>2011</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>14</day>
          <month>12</month>
          <year>2011</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>I-Hsien Ting, Pei Shan Chang, Shyue-Liang Wang</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>With the rapid growth of Internet and social networking websites, various services are provided in these platforms. For instance, Facebook focuses on social activities, Twitter and Plurk (which are called microblogs) are both focusing on the interaction of users through short messages. Millions of users enjoy services from these websites which are full of marketing possibilities. Understanding the users can assist companies to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of the target market. In this paper, a social recommendation system based on the data from microblogs is proposed. This social recommendation system is built according to the messages and social structure of target users. The similarity of the discovered features of users and products will then be calculated as the essence of the recommendation engine. A case study included in the paper presents how the recommendation system works based on real data from Plurk.</p>
      </abstract>
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