Online platforms which assist people in finding a suitable partner
or match, such as online dating and job recruiting environments,
have become increasingly popular in the last decade. Many of these
platforms include recommender systems which aim at helping users
discover other people who will also be interested in them. These
recommender systems benefit from contemplating the interest of
both sides of the recommended match, however the question of
how to optimally balance the interest and the response of both sides
remains open. In this study we present a novel recommendation
method for recommending people to people. For each user receiving a recommendation, our method finds the optimal balance of
two criteria: a) the likelihood of the user accepting the recommendation; and b) the likelihood of the recommended user positively
responding. We extensively evaluate our recommendation method
in a group of active users of an operational online dating site. We
find that our method is significantly more effective in increasing the
number of successful interactions compared to a state-of-the-art
recommendation method.