COMMPER 2012 - International Workshop on Community Mining and People Recommenders

Data mining and knowledge discovery in social networks has advanced significantly over the past several years, due to the availability of a large variety of offline and online social network systems. The focus of COMMPER 2012 is on social networks with special focus on community mining and people recommenders. Community minding involves topics such as the analysis of scientific communities and collaboration networks, including bibliometrics, and the formation of teams. People recommenders focus on the all topics where recommender systems are used to enable connections among users, such systems can be found on all types of social networks such as photo sharing websites, expert search, mentoring systems and online dating..