Willingness Optimization for Social Group Activity
Summary: Introduces Willingness Maximization for Social Group Activity (WASO) for automatic attendee selection from interests and social ties. A budget-aware randomized algorithm with an approximation guarantee escapes greedy local optima; implemented in Facebook with user studies showing gains over manual configuration. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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- 1. Hong-Han Shuai
- 2. De-Nian Yang
- 3. Philip S. Yu
- 4. Ming-Syan Chen
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| 11,597 | Optimizing Item and Subgroup Configurations for Social-Aware VR Shopping | 2020 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
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