TAGora supporting the Discovery Challenge at ECML/PKDD 2008

This year, the Discovery Challenge of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD) is about spam detection and tag recommendations in the social bookmarking and publication sharing system BibSonomy. More information can be found at http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/rsdc08/. Interested researchers can download training data, and have to provide predictions on a set of test data.

Network Properties of Folksonomies

C. Cattuto, C. Schmitz, A. Baldassarri, V. D. P. Servedio, V. Loreto, A. Hotho, M. Grahl, G. Stumme
AI Communications 20, 245 (2007)
Special issue on “Network Analysis in Natural Sciences and Engineering”
[PDF] [on BibSonomy]

TAGora at ECCS07 in Dresden

TAGora will contribute to the European Conference on Complex Systems ECCS07 as follows:

• a talk by Vittorio Loreto at the CRP Forum on Saturday 6th October 2007
• a presentation of the project (poster and introductory talk) at the FET Workshop
• a satellite conference organized by Bettina Hoser and Ciro Cattuto on Social Websites – Complex Dynamics and Structure
• a talk presented by Andrea Baldassarri on
  Emergent Community Structure in Social Tagging Systems
• a talk and a poster presented by Vito D. P. Servedio on Vocabulary Growth in Collaborative Tagging Systems
• a talk by Vittorio Loreto at the satellite conference on Interacting Agents, Complexity and Inter-Disciplinary Applications

We are looking forward to meeting you in Dresden !

Post-doc opening in Roma

A post-doc position in the TAGora project is immediately available in Roma.
The successful candidate will work in the PHYS-SAPIENZA team of the project, based in Roma, and will take part in the operation of the project at large.

The ideal candidate holds a Ph.D. in Physics or Computer Science
with a strong attitude for large-scale data analysis and computational techniques,
as well as a positive interest for inter-disciplinary topics.
The net monthly salary will be around 2000 Euros
and the expected starting date is October 2007.

For further information and applications, please contact Prof. Vittorio Loreto at coordinator [at] tagora-project.eu
or vittorio.loreto [at] roma1.infn.it

[ TIPTOP announcement ]

Semiotic Dynamics and Collaborative Tagging

Ciro Cattuto, Vittorio Loreto and Luciano Pietronero
PNAS 104, 1461 (2007)
[PDF] [on BibSonomy]