Workshop Program
Tentative Workshop Program for Tuesday, July 17
9:00-9:30 - Opening and Introduction
9:30-10:30 - Keynote Presentation 1 The Power of Known Peers: A Study in two Domains
by Prof. Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh)
10:30-11:00 - Coffee Break
11:00-11:45 - Paper Session I (Online Communities) A Hybrid Peer Recommender System for an Online Community of Teachers (10 minutes + 5) Cristian Miranda, Julio Guerra, Denis Parra, Eliana Scheihing
Recommending Communities at the Regional & City Level (10 minutes + 5) John P. Verostek
SRec: A Social Behaviour Based Recommender for Online Communities (10 minutes+ 5) Surya Nepal, Cecile Paris, Sanat Bista
11:45-12:30 - Paper Session II (User Modeling for Social Recommenders) Selective Presentation of Peer Commentary on Web Objects Through a Modeling of User Similarity and Reputability: Reducing Information Overload in Social Networks (10 minutes + 5) John Champaign, Robin Cohen
Improving a Recommender System Through Integration of User Profiles: a Semantic Approach (10 minutes + 5) Jonathas Magalhaes, Cleyton Souza, Pryscilla Silva, Evandro Costa, Joseana Fechine
A Fuzzy-based Inference Mechanism of Trust for Improved Social Recommenders (10 minutes+ 5) Renato A. C. Capuruco, Luiz F. Capretz
12:30-14:00 - Lunch
14:00-15:00 - Keynote Presentation 2 Picking the Best of the Best
by Shlomo Berkovsky (National ICT of Australia)
15:00-15:30 - Coffee Break
15:30-16:00 - Paper Session III (Query Expansion and Evaluation)
Folksonomy-Based Adaptive Query Expansion (10 minutes+ 5) Claudio Biancalana, Fabio Gasparetti, Alessandro Micarelli, Alfonso Miola, and Giuseppe Sansonetti
Evaluation and Assessment of Recommenders Using Monte Carlo Simulation (10 minutes+ 5) Renato A. C. Capuruco, Luiz F. Capretz
16:00-17:00 - Breakout Discussions in Groups
17:00-17:30- Closing
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