new 2 thesis about recommender systems

Entity recommendation and search in heterogeneous information networks
https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/49374

Rankings: From similarity distances computation to interactive synchronization
https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/49447


Please remember:
For online dating applications and personality based recommenders persons/daters are "distinguishable" and not "exchangeable".

Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)
If you want to be first in the "personalization arena" == Personality Based Recommender Systems, you should understand HOW TO INNOVATE in the ............ Online Dating Industry first of all!

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/paper-how-do-personality-traits-affect.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/paper-development-of-group-recommender.html