SOS: A Distributed Mobile Q&A System Based on Social Networks

SOS: A DISTRIBUTED MOBILE Q&A SYSTEM BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS

ABSTRACT:

Recently, emerging research efforts have been focused on question and answer (Q&A) systems based on social networks. The social-based Q&A systems can answer nonfactual questions, which cannot be easily resolved by web search engines. These systems either rely on a centralized server for identifying friends based on social information or broadcast a user’s questions to all of its friends. Mobile Q&A systems, where mobile nodes access the Q&A systems through Internet, are very promising considering a rapid increase of mobile users and the convenience of practical use. However, such systems cannot directly use the previous centralized methods or broadcasting methods, which generate high cost of mobile Internet access, node overload, and high server bandwidth cost with the tremendous number of mobile users. We propose a distributed Social-based mObile Q&A System (SOS) with low overhead and system cost as well as quick response to question askers. SOS enables mobile users to forward questions to potential answerers in their friend lists in a decentralized manner for a number of hops and then resort to the server. It leverages lightweight knowledge engineering techniques to accurately identify friends who are able to and willing to answer questions, thus reducing the search and computation costs of mobile nodes. The trace-driven simulation results show that SOS can achieve a high query precision and recall rate, a short response latency and low overhead. We have also deployed a pilot version of SOS for use in a small group in Clemson University. The feedback from the users shows that SOS can provide high-quality answers.

EXISTING SYSTEM:

Although the search engines perform well in answering factual queries for information already in a database, they are not suitable for non-factual queries that are more subjective, relative and multi-dimensional (e.g., can anyone recommend a professor in advising research on social-based Q&A systems?), especially when the information is not in the database (e.g., suggestions, recommendations, advices). One method to solve this problem is to forward the non-factual queries to humans, which are the most “intelligent machines” that are capable of parsing, interpreting and answering the queries, provided they are familiar with the queries. Accordingly, a number of expertise location systems have been proposed to search experts in social networks or Internet aided by a centralized search engine. Also, web Q&A sites such as Yahoo!Answers and Ask.com provide high-quality answers and have been increasingly popular.

DISADVANTAGES OF EXISTING SYSTEM:

v It suffers from high cost of mobile Internet access, high query congestion, and high server bandwidth and maintenance costs.

v Broadcasting results in many costly interruptions to users by sending questions that they cannot answer and increase their workload.

PROPOSED SYSTEM:

SOS leverages the lightweight knowledge engineering techniques to transform users’ social information and closeness, as well as questions to IDs, respectively, so that a node can locally and accurately identify its friends capable of answering a given question by mapping the question’s ID with the social IDs. The node then forwards the question to the identified friends in a decentralized manner. After receiving a question, the users can decide to forward the question or answer the questions if they can. The question is forwarded along friend social links for a number of hops, and then resorts to the server. The cornerstone of SOS is that a person usually issues a question that is closely related to his/her social life. As people sharing similar interests are likely to be clustered in their social network, the social network can be regarded as social interest clusters intersecting with each other. By locally choosing the most potential answerers in a node’s friend list, the queries can be finally forwarded to social clusters that have answers for the question. As the answerers are socially close to the askers, theyare more willing to answer the questions compared to strangers in the Q&A websites.

ADVANTAGES OF PROPOSED SYSTEM:

v Rather than relying on a centralized server, each node identifies the potential answerers from its friends, thus avoiding the query congestion and high server bandwidth and maintenance cost problem.

v Rather than broadcasting a question to all of its friends, an asker identifies the potential answerers who are very likely to answer this question, thus reducing the node overhead, traffic and mobile Internet access.

SYSTEM CONFIGURATION:-

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:-

Processor             -       Pentium –IV

Speed                  -       1.1 Ghz

RAM                   -       512 MB(min)

Hard Disk            -       40 GB

Key Board           -       Standard Windows Keyboard

Mouse                 -       Two or Three Button Mouse

Monitor                       -       LCD/LED

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:

Operating system        :       Windows XP.

Coding Language       :       JAVA

Data Base                    :       MySQL

Tool                            :       Netbeans

REFERENCE:

Ze Li, Haiying Shen and Guoxin Liu, Jin Li, “ SOS: A Distributed Mobile Q&A System Based on Social Networks” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS,  2012 IEEE 32nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE.