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Most existing recommender systems rely on collaborative filtering techniques which focus on recommending the most relevant items to users based on past rating information of users or items. In Social Networks, the cold-start and data sparsity problems are very serious because new users and items are growing rapidly. Taking the Event Recommendation problem in Event-Based Social Networks as a scenario, many events are newly created and have few feedbacks. Existed collaborative filtering based methods will fail for Social Recommendation due to these problems. Therefore, a more sophisticated recommendation mechanism that can efficiently combine various contextual information to further improve recommendation quality is desired. In this paper, we propose a Context Aware Matrix Factorization model called CAMF which models implicit feedbacks and various contextual information simultaneously for Social Recommendation. 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