A Survey on Decision Support Systems in Social Media

Abstract

Web 3.0 is the upcoming phase in web evolution. Web 3.0 will be about "feeding you the information that you want, when you want it" i.e. personalization of the web. In web 3.0 the basic principle is linking, integrating and analyzing data from various data sources into new information streams by means of semantic technology. So, we can say that Web 3.0 comprises of two platforms semantic technologies and social computing environment. Recommender system is a subclass of decision support system. Recommendations in social web are used to personalize the web [20]. Social Tagging System is one type of social media. In this paper we present the survey of various recommendations in Social Tagging Systems (STSs) like tag, item, user and unified recommendations along with semantic web and also discussed about major thrust areas of research in each category.