SocRecM: a scalable social recommender engine for online marketplaces

This paper presents work-in-progress on SocRecM, a novel social recommendation framework for online marketplaces. We demonstrate that SocRecM is easy to integrate with existing Web technologies through a RESTful, scalable and easy-to-extend service-based architecture. Moreover, we reveal the extent to which various social features and recommendation approaches are useful in an online social marketplace environment.