World Wide Web

Statistics

Online community

Computer science

Social network (sociolinguistics)

Internet privacy

Mathematics

Social media

Matching (statistics)

Starting a new online community can be difficult, so to help community members to get to know each other and develop a support network, we are proposing a buddy matching program, which recommends community members to each other. The recommendations are based on three social matching algorithms and include community constraints to ensure all members get recommended to someone while at the same time ensuring members are not solicited too many times.

A buddy matching program to help build an online support network