4th ACM RecSys Workshop on

Recommender Systems

&

the Social Web

Dublin, 9 September, 2012

Workshop program

  • 9:00 - 9:15 Opening and introductions

  • 9:15 - 10:30 Session: Tags and Folksonomies (Session Chair: Werner Geyer)
    • Extending FolkRank with Content Data (15+5) (Slides)
      Nikolas Landia, Sarabjot Singh Anand, Andreas Hotho, Robert Jäschke, Stephan Dörfel and Folke Mitzlaff
    • Leveraging Publication Metadata and Social Data into FolkRank for Scientific Publication Recommendation (15+5) (Slides)
      Stephan Dörfel, Robert Jäschke, Andreas Hotho and Gerd Stumme
    • Context Determines Content - An Approach to Resource Recommendation in Folksonomies (15+5) (Slides)
      Thomas Rodenhausen, Mojisola Anjorin, Renato Dominguez Garcia and Christoph Rensing


  • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

  • 11:00 - 12:30 Session: Recommender Applications for the Social Web (Session Chair: Andreas Hotho)
    • Aggregating Content and Network Information to Curate Twitter User Lists (15+5) (Slides)
      Derek Greene, Gavin Sheridan, Barry Smyth and Padraig Cunningham
    • Online Dating Recommender Systems: The Split-complex Number Approach (15+5) (Slides)
      Jerome Kunegis, Gerd Gröner and Thomas Gottron
    • Social Media-Driven News Personalization (15+5) (Slides)
      Shawn O'Banion, Larry Birnbaum and Kristian Hammond
    • FReSET - An Evaluation Framework for Folksonomy-based Recommender Systems (Short paper, 10+5)
      Renato Domíinguez Garcia, Matthias Bender, Mojisola Anjorin, Christoph Rensing and Ralf Steinmetz


  • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch

  • 14:30 - 15:30 Keynote address (Introduction by Werner Geyer)
    • Content, Connections, and Context (Slides)
      Daniel Tunkelang, LinkedIn, USA
  • 15:30 - 16:00 Session: Trust-Based Recommendations (Session chair: Dietmar Jannach)
    • Trust-based local and social recommendation (15+5) (Slides)
      Simon Meyffret, Lionel Medini and Frederique Laforest
    • Design and Analysis of a Gossip-based Decentralized Trust Recommender System (15+5) (Slides)
      Stefan Magureanu, Nima Dokoohaki, Shahab Mokarizadeh and Mihhail Matskin


  • 16:10 - 16:30 Coffe break

  • 16:30 - 17:30 Discussion and wrap up

  • 17:30 Workshop closing