Using graph-based models in a persuasive social recommendation system

Nowadays, social networks have an enormous impact in the society generating a lot of useful information to be employed in new social applications. In this paper, we show how we have used a graph-based model to extract and model data in order to develop a Social Recommendation System which recommends recipes in a social network.
This work was partially supported by the project MINE-CO/FEDER TIN2012-365686-C03-01 of the Spanish government and by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports under the Program for R&D Valorisation and Joint Resources VLC/CAMPUS, as part of the Campus of International Excellence Program (Ref. SP20140788).