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Incidentally, most of the SIoV research in the literature is related to proximity-based connectivity and interactions. In this paper, we bring people in the loop by incorporating their SNs. While emphasizing a recommendation scenario, in which vehicles may require recommendations from SNs of their owners (in addition to their own SIoV), we proposed an agent-based model of information sharing (for context-based recommendations) on a hypothetical population of smart vehicles. Some important hypotheses were tested using a realistic simulation setting. The simulation results reveal that a recommendation using weak ties is more valuable than a recommendation using strong ties in pure SIoV. The simulation results also demonstrate that recommendations using the most-connected person in the social network are not more valuable than recommendation using a random person in the social network. The model presented in this paper can be used to design a multi-scale recommendation system, which uses SIoV and a typical SN in combination.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/fi12040069","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,16]],"date-time":"2020-04-16T13:01:39Z","timestamp":1587042099000},"page":"69","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Improving Recommendation Accuracy Using Social Network of Owners in Social Internet of Vehicles"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3239-2366","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kashif","family":"Zia","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Sohar University, Sohar 311, Oman"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8430-206X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Muhammad","family":"Shafi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Sohar University, Sohar 311, Oman"}]},{"given":"Umar","family":"Farooq","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology Bannu, Bannu 28100, Pakistan"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"94","DOI":"10.1038\/scientificamerican0991-94","article-title":"The computer for the 21st century","volume":"265","author":"Weiser","year":"1991","journal-title":"Sci. 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