What’s going on in my city? Recommender systems and electronic participatory budgeting

Cantador, Iván; Cortés-Cediel, María E.; Fernández, Miriam and Alani, Harith (2018). What’s going on in my city? Recommender systems and electronic participatory budgeting. In: RecSys '18: Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, ACM, New York, pp. 219–223.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3240323.3240391

Abstract

In this paper, we present electronic participatory budgeting (ePB) as a novel application domain for recommender systems. On public data from the ePB platforms of three major US cities – Cambridge, Miami and New York City–, we evaluate various methods that exploit heterogeneous sources and models of user preferences to provide personalized recommendations of citizen proposals. We show that depending on characteristics of the cities and their participatory processes, particular methods are more effective than others for each city. This result, together with open issues identified in the paper, call for further research in the area.

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