PLIERS: a Popularity-Based Recommender System for Content Dissemination
  in Online Social Networks
Valerio Arnaboldi Mattia Giovanni Campana Franca Delmastro Elena Pagani
In this paper, we propose a novel tag-based recommender system called PLIERS,
which relies on the assumption that users are mainly interested in items and
tags with similar popularity to those they already own. PLIERS is aimed at
reaching a good tradeoff between algorithmic complexity and the level of
personalization of recommended items. To evaluate PLIERS, we performed a set of
experiments on real OSN datasets, demonstrating that it outperforms
state-of-the-art solutions in terms of personalization, relevance, and novelty
of recommendations.