Comparing and Recommending Conferences

• Grettel Monteagudo García Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
• Bernardo Pereira Nunes Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro / Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro
• Giseli Rabello Lopes Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
• Marco Antonio Casanova Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
• Luiz André P. Paes Leme Federal Fluminense University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/brasnam.2016.6446

Abstract

This paper first introduces techniques for comparing conferences that use familiar similarity measures and a new measure based on co-authorship communities. Then, it focuses on two families of techniques for conference recommendation, the first one based on the similarity measures and the second on the idea of finding the most related authors in the co-authorship network. The experiments suggest that the best performing techniques are: the technique for comparing conferences that uses the new similarity measure based on co-authorship communities; and the conference recommendation technique that explores the most related authors in the co-authorship network.

Keywords: Recommender Systems, Scientific Conferences, Co-authoring Networks

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