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SYCS: Symposium Data Analysis in Complex Systems

SYCS 1: Data Analysis in Complex Systems: From Data to Models

SYCS 1.6: Invited Talk

Friday, March 27, 2009, 13:00–13:30, BAR SCHÖ

Physics of recommendation mechanisms — •Yi-Cheng Zhang — Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Recommendation is a proactive way to bring the right information to the needy people, it complements to information searching. We shall outline the basic premises of recommendation and examine the possible applications on the WWW. We shall deal with the dilemma of ever-fine seggregation and the need of diversification. The models behind have closer analog with traditional physics than it is generally acknowledged.