| 摘要 |
Methods and apparatus for a system providing group recommendations, event scheduling, and forming consensus agreements among a group of disparately located users are provided by the present principles. Communication among the disparately located users may be achieved through social media tools, online polling, chatting, and texting. The methods and apparatus allow a user profile to be constructed based on ratings that a user provides to items in a database. The items may comprise such things as restaurants, movie theaters, or other entertainment and group activities. The items may comprise feature vectors including attributes of the individual items. With user profiles constructed, the methods and apparatus may allow prediction of a rating that an individual with a particular user profile may give to a similar item in a database. The system may be used to predict the best choice for a group activity by considering the ratings of all users within a group. Individual ratings may be weighted to give higher or lower priority to some users. The system may also recommend activities based on the users participating in the group, or allow the users to select other activities to be considered. In one exemplary embodiment, the system selects recommendations for the users, comprising elements such as movie title, theater location, seating, and prices. The system sends notifications to the users, collects preferences from the users, and determines a choice based on the collected preferences. The users are notified of the choice and given an opportunity to purchase tickets electronically. If so, they may receive electronic tickets, coupons, promotions, or offers. |
