Hikester - the event management application

TL;DR

Hikester is an event management application integrated with social networks, enabling users to create, manage, and invite others to various events, supported by features like recommendations, spam detection, and parameter optimization.

Contribution

This paper introduces Hikester, a novel event management platform with integrated recommender, spam recognition, and parameter optimization systems, filling a gap in social network functionalities.

Findings

Successfully supports diverse event types like sports, quests, and cultural visits.

Includes effective recommender and spam detection systems.

System architecture and component implementation are detailed.

Abstract

Today social networks and services are one of the most important part of our everyday life. Most of the daily activities, such as communicating with friends, reading news or dating is usually done using social networks. However, there are activities for which social networks do not yet provide adequate support. This paper focuses on event management and introduces "Hikester". The main objective of this service is to provide users with the possibility to create any event they desire and to invite other users. "Hikester" supports the creation and management of events like attendance of football matches, quest rooms, shared train rides or visit of museums in foreign countries. Here we discuss the project architecture as well as the detailed implementation of the system components: the recommender system, the spam recognition service and the parameters optimizer.