01278nas a2200253   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002260001200043653002700055653001100082653001300093653001100106100003000117700002400147700003600171700002600207700002700233245011100260856007500371300001000446490000600456520054800462022001401010       2011                            d  c12/201110aRecommendation Systems10aMethod10aFeedback10aRating1 aJuan Manuel Cueva-Lovelle1 aG Infante-Hernandez1 aCarlos Enrique Montenegro-Marin1 aEdward Núñez-Valdez1 aOscar Sanjuan-Martinez00aSocial Voting Techniques: A Comparison of the Methods Used for Explicit Feedback in Recommendation Systems  uhttp://www.ijimai.org/journal/sites/default/files/IJIMAI20111_4_10.pdf  a61-660 v13 aWeb recommendation systems usually brings a content list to users based on previous ratings made by them to other similar contents through some social voting mean. This paper aims to present a comparison of the main explicit rating methods used by web recommendation systems. The goal of this survey is to determine which of the studied methods fits better to user preferences when they rate a content on the web; based on the obtained results, a recommendation system can be implemented using an explicit feedback method to achieve this goal.  a1989-1660