RECOMMENDER SYSTEM FOR STIMULATING A USER TO RECOMMEND AN ITEM TO A CONTACT OF THE USER

摘要

The present invention is related to a recommender system (100), a computer-implemented recommending method, a corresponding computer readable medium and a corresponding computer program. A recommender system (100) is configured to send an electronic suggestion signal (186) to a respective user (199) of a user database (140) in dependence of a first like-degree (164) of a specific item, which has been determined based on items that the respective user has already recommended to his contacts. The electronic suggestion signal (186) suggests the respective user (199) to recommend the specific item to one or more of his contacts (198). In that way, personal based recommendations (188) are stimulated.