{"id":157,"date":"2015-04-20T10:37:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T10:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/skillted\/?p=157"},"modified":"2015-04-29T09:15:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T09:15:03","slug":"matching-algorithm-v1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/skillted\/2015\/04\/20\/matching-algorithm-v1-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Matching Algorithm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whenever something changes in the network (e.g. a new user joins, a user changes their settings on skills and interests, or a user changes location), the matching algorithm is run to compute the set of matching users. The following flowchart shows how the algorithm works.<\/p>\n

\"SocialNetsFlowchart\"<\/a><\/p>\n

What follows is a simplified version of the actual algorithm.<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Further Thoughts<\/h1>\n

In order to keep consistency to infer relations between the user’s skills, a semantic ontology could be defined. This would create a structure to relate activities which are related by a number of possible connections, such as: hyperonymy, meronymy. An example of related activities is: piano – music<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Natural Language Processing tools might also be used to find, categorise and traverse the ontology. The Wordnet<\/a> lexical database could be employed to lay out the structure frame for the ontology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whenever something changes in the network (e.g. a new user joins, a user changes their settings on skills and interests, or a user changes location), the matching algorithm is run to compute the set of matching users. The following flowchart shows how the algorithm works. What follows is a simplified version of the actual algorithm. \u00a0Further Thoughts In order to… Read more → <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62597,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30844],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-system-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/skillted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/skillted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/skillted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/skillted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/skillted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/skillted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/skillted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/skillted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/skillted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/skillted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}