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The Software Technology department at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) started with the appointment of prof.dr.ir. Geert-Jan Houben a new group on Web Information Systems (WIS) that is involved in the education in Computer Science and Information Architecture and that concentrates in its research on the engineering and science of the web, specifically on the engineering of web-based information systems with semantics-based user-adaptation.
Main topics in the group's research activities concern
Further details on the research activities that the WIS team is doing are listed at Research Lines.
Trending research activities: ImREAL, WUDE, RDFGears, Twitcident, GeniUS and Twinder.
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The paper "Analyzing User Behavior across Social Sharing Environments" by Pasquale De Meo, Emilio Ferrara, Fabian Abel, Lora Aroyo, Geert-Jan Houben, has been accepted for ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technolog
The paper "Groundhog Day: Near-Duplicate Detection on Twitter" by Ke Tao, Fabian Abel, Claudia Hauff, Geert-Jan Houben, Ujwal Gadiraju, has been accepted for WWW2013.
The paper in the UMUAI journal on "cross-system user modeling and personalization in the social web" by Fabian Abel, Eelco Herder, Geert-Jan Houben, Nicola Henze, and Daniel Krause is now online: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11257-012-9131-2
Our work on analyzing differences between Twitter and Sina Weibo was covered in New Scientist and UK Daily Telegraph. The work with our partners on Twitcident made it into several sources including Wired.
"A Comparative Study of Users' Microblogging Behavior on Sina Weibo and Twitter" by Qi Gao, Fabian Abel, Geert-Jan Houben (all from WIS) and Yong Yu (from SJTU) won the James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UMAP, the premier international conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, this year in Canada.
Great news: boosted by the ImREAL project, several papers have been accepted in the first part of 2012. Our research on user modeling in the Social Web, and culture-related differences, is presented at UMAP and WebScience. Twitcident-related work about automatic filtering of Social Web streams is presented at WWW and Hypertext. Studies on geographical user profiling and serendipitous browsing are presented at ECIR and SIGIR. Work on Twinder and social event detection are presented at ICWE.
The WIS group is involved in the NIRICT (3TU) Strategic Research Agenda on Data Analytics for Smart Services: DASS.
We are co-organizing workshops on user modeling and web engineering: AUM @ UMAP 2012 is about augmented user modeling and ComposableWeb @ ICWE 2012 is about lightweight integration on the Web. We also organized SWEET @ SIGMOD 2012 on scalable workflow engines and cloud computing. On May 11 we organized the CATCH day on Cultural Heritage Getting Social: Trust and Authority in the Crowd.
The PoliMedia project on Linked Open Politics has just started May 2012. The WUDE project on Web User Demand Elicitation has been awarded and has started at the end of 2011. Twitcident focuses on real-time analytics and delivery of relevant tweets during large incidents and emergencies.
"Analyzing User Modeling on Twitter for Personalized News Recommendations" by Fabian Abel, Qi Gao, Geert-Jan Houben and Ke Tao (all from WIS) won the Best Paper award at UMAP, the premier international conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, this year in Spain. At http://wis.ewi.tudelft.nl/umap2011/ you find relevant material about that paper.