Research Lines

The WIS group performs research in the area of Web Engineering and Web Science. We are enthusiastic about doing science on the Social Web and love to investigate the power of Semantic Web technologies. We envision a Web that adapts to the demands of the individual people. Therefore, we conduct research activities along the following three core research lines:

Trending research activities: ImREAL, WUDE, RDFGears, Twitcident, GeniUS and Twinder.

Current Research Activities

Among the current or recent research activities and projects that the WIS group performs in the above research lines are:

  • ATSearch - Adaptive Faceted Search on Twitter
  • CrossUM - Cross-system User Modeling on the Social Semantic Web
  • Data Bridges - Smart (user) data services in digital cities
  • GeniUS - Generic user modeling on the Social Semantic Web
  • Hera - Semantics-based adaptation engineering
  • ImREAL - Augmenting user models with real-world information in training and learning
  • Net2 - Semantic-based methodologies for networked web and knowledge engineering
  • PoliMedia - Linked Open Politics
  • RDF Gears - Data integration for the Semantic Web
  • TweetUM - Analyzing and modeling user behavior on Twitter for recommending trending news on the Social Web
  • Twitcident - Using relevant tweets during big incidents
  • Twinder - Finding interesting information in Social Web streams
  • U-Sem - Holistic User Modeling on the Social Semantic Web
  • WUDE - Web user demand elicitation in cultural heritage access

Research Community & Service

Some upcoming and recently organized workshops:

  • WISM (@ ER 2012) - Ninth International Workshop on Web Information Systems Modeling, at ER, October 2012.
  • ComposableWeb (@ ICWE 2012) - Fourth International Workshop on Lightweight Integration on the Web, at the International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE), July 2012. 
  • AUM (@ UMAP 2012) - Second International Workshop on Augmented User Modeling, at the international conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), July 2012. 
  • CATCH day - Cultural Heritage Getting Social: Trust and Authority in the Crowd, NWO CATCH day at the SEALINCMedia project, May 2012.
  • SWEET (@ SIGMOD 2012) - International Workshop on Scalable Workflow Enactment Engines and Technologies on scalable workflow engines and cloud computing, at SIGMOD, May 2012.
  • MultiA-Pro (@ WWW 2012) - International Workshop on Interoperability of User Profiles in Multi-Application Web Environments, at World Wide Web Conference (WWW), April 2012.  
  • MDWE 2011 (@ ICWE 2011) - 7th Model-Driven Web Engineering Workshop, at the International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2011) in Paphos, Cyprus, June 2011.
  • ComposableWeb 2011 (@ ICWE 2011) - Third International Workshop on Lightweight Composition on the Web, at the International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2011) in Paphos, Cyprus, June 2011.
  • DAH 2011 (@ ACM Hypertext 2011) - International Workshop on Dynamic and Adaptive Hypertext, at the ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (ACM Hypertext 2011), in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, June 2011.
  • AUM 2011 (@ UMAP 2011) - International Workshop on Augmenting User Models with Real-World Experiences to Enhance Personalization and Adaptation, at User Modeling, Adaptatin and Personalization (UMAP 2011), in Girona, Spain, July 2011.
  • WISM 2011 (@ ER 2011) - Eight International Workshop on Web Information System Modeling, at the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2011), in Brussels, Belgium, November 2011.
  • UWeb2011 (@ ESWC 2011) - User Profile Data on the Social Semantic Web
  • USEWOD 2011 (@ WWW 2011) - 1st International Workshop on Usage Analysis and the Web of Data
  • UDISW2010 (@ IUI 2010) - International Workshop on User Data Interoperability in the Social Web
  • WISM 2010 (@ ER 2010) - Seventh International Workshop on Web Information Systems Modeling
  • ComposableWeb 2010 (@ ICWE 2010) - Second International Workshop on Lightweight Composition on the Web
  • MDWE 2010 (@ ICWE 2010) - 6th Model-Driven Web Engineering Workshop
  • LUPAS 2010 (@ ESWC 2010) - International Workshop on Linking of User Profiles and Applications in the Social Semantic Web
  • WABBWUAS 2010 (@ UMAP 2010) - Workshop on Architectures and Building Blocks of Web-Based User-Adaptive Systems

The following is a non-exhaustive list of research events that WIS group members are or have been involved in as chair, organizer or committee member:

  • AAAI2012, ECIR2012, ESWC2012, HT2012, ICWE2012, I-Semantics2012, LAPIS2012, MultiA-Pro2012, RAMSS2012, UMAP2012, WebSci12, WISM2012, WWW2012
  • AUM2011, BEWEB 2011, CHI 2011, CIKM 2011, ComposableWeb2011, DAH2011, EDBT 2011, ESWC 2011, EUROITV2011, FOMI2011, HT2011, ICWE 2011, IJCAI2011, I-Semantics 2011, ISWC 2011, LISC2011, MDWE2011, MMM2011, MODIQUITOUS-2011, MSW2011, SASWeb2011, SIGIR 2011, SocialObjects2012, S3T 2012, UMAP2011, USEWOD2011, UWEB2011, VISSW 2011, WebSci11, WeRE 2011, WIN2011
  • AIMSA 2010, ComposableWeb'10, Coopis 2010, EDBT 2010, EIS 2010, EKAW2010, ESWC2010, HT2010, ICDKE 2010, ICWE2010, KMIS 2010, LUPAS2010, MDWE 2010, PODS 2010, QWE'10, RecsysTEL-2010, SASweb 2010, SLE 2010, SOFSEM2010, UDISW2010, UMAP2010, WABBWUAS2010, WANDS 2010, WebSci10, WECU2010, WISH2010, WSW2010
  • ABIS2009, CIKM 2009, ComposableWeb2009, DAH2009, EDBT 2009, ESWC 2009, HT 2009, ICOODB 2009, ICSC 2009, ICWE 2009, KMIS 2009, Mashups09, MDWE2009, MMM2009, SWIM 09, UMAP09, WISE 2009, WISM2009, WWW2009
  • AH2008, CIKM2008, EDBT 2008, HT 2008, ICWE 2008, MDWE2008, MMM2008, PATCH 2008, SOFSEM 08, WISE 2008, WISM2008, WWW2008

Further, WIS group members are board member of the following journals:

  • ACM TWEB, IJWET, IJWS, IJBPIM, JWE

And they have been involved in reviewing and special issue editing for these and many other relevant journals, for example JoDI, JWS, SWJ, DKE, IEEE IntSys, IJHCS, IJSWIS.