What is SNRG?
SNRG is a reading group that holds weekly meetings to discuss interesting papers and problems, generally related to social networks. Feel free to attend meetings and participate in discussions. All ideas about problems, papers, talks, etc. are welcome. Meetings usually start with stating an interesting problem without getting into possible solutions, and then following up possible approaches to previously stated problems. An informal talk by a volunteer follows, and attendants discuss about the paper(s) as the speaker proceeds. Finally, possible applications of and extensions to the approach are discussed.
When, where, and how?
Currently, in the second semester of 2009/2010, meetings are held on Thursdays at 2 pm in ICICS 202.
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SNRG talks
List of previous and upcoming talks (since May 2009):
| Date |
Speaker |
Title or Paper Name |
| May 27 |
- |
Start up |
| Jun 3 |
Amit |
Viral Marketing |
| Jun 10 |
Solmaz |
Kumar et al, "Recommendation Systems: a probabilistic analysis", FOCS'98 |
| Jun 17 |
Mohammad |
Adomavicius et al, "Toward the Next Generation of Recommender Systems: A Survey of the State-of-the-Art and Possible Extensions" |
| Jun 24 |
Pooya |
Proximity measures and link preditcion problem |
| Jul 1 |
Aditya |
Amer-Yahia et al, "Exploration by Example" |
| Jul 8 |
Ali |
Dhillon et al, "Information-Theoric Co-clustering", SIGKDD'03 |
| Jul 15 |
Mohammad |
"A Scalable Collaborative Filtering Framework based on Co-clustering", ICDM'05 |
| Jul 22 |
Pooya |
Symeonidis et al, "Tag Recommendation using Tensor Dimensionality Reduction", RecSys'08 |
| Jul 29 |
Solmaz |
Zhang et al, "Avoiding Monotony: Improving the Diversity of Recommendation Lists", RecSys'08 |
| Aug 5 |
- |
Free Discussion |
| Aug 12 |
Mohammad |
Umyarov et al, "Improving Collaborative Filtering Recommendations Using External Data", ICDM'08 |
| Aug 19 |
Ali |
Labrou et al, "Yahoo! as an Ontology - Using Yahoo! Categories to Describe Documents", CIKM'99 |
| Sep 3 |
- |
Semester start up |
| Sep 10 |
Amit |
"Personalized recommendation driven by information flow", SIGIR'06 |
| Sep 17 |
Michele |
"Mining Graph Evolution Rules", ECML-PKDD'09 |
| Oct 1 |
Solmaz |
Liu et al, "BrowseRank: letting web users vote for page importance", SIGIR'08 |
| Oct 8 |
Sarah |
Gyongyi et al, "Combating Web Spam with TrustRank", VLDB'04 |
| Oct 15 |
Jamila |
Jeh et al, "Simrank: A Measure of Structural-Context Similarity", KDD'02 |
| Oct 22 |
Min |
"Optimizing Web Search Using Social Annotations", WWW'07 |
| Oct 29 |
Charles |
Liu et al, "Tag Ranking", WWW'09 |
| Nov 5 |
Pooya |
Guha et al., "Propagation of Trust and Distrust", WWW'04 |
| Nov 12 |
Sarah |
Ranking items in social networks based on trust |
| Nov 19 |
Amit |
A Tutorial on Submodular Functions and Optimization |
| Nov 26 |
Hongrae |
Introduction to Randomized Algorithms |
| Dec 3 |
Min |
Smoothed Analysis |
| Dec 10 |
Mohammad |
Kourtika et al, "FlexRecs: Expressing and Combining Flexible Recommendations", SIGMOD'09 |
| Dec 24 |
- |
Happy Holidays! |