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Social networks have emerged as a new paradigm for everyday communication, as well as for promoting collaboration within enterprises and organizations. Using current technology, social network participants not only exchange information but also invoke external applications in the form of gadgets. In order to provide enhanced, complex functionality to participants, enabling them to complete a specific business task, workflow composition based on gadget combination could be supported. In such case, gadgets executed in the context of a user profile may add or update information stored in it, while the profile owner is responsible to combine them. In this paper, we explore how to support such features, based on a recommendation mechanism, which automatically produces gadget composition plans, based on intelligent techniques. This context-driven process provides efficiency in cases when a large …