"Computing with Social Trust: Web Algorithms, Social Networks, and Recommendations.""Computing with Social Trust: Web Algorithms, Social Networks, and Recommendations."http://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/85242KINSC Hilles 109 2009-03-18T16:30:002009-03-18T18:00:00
March 18, 4:30PM
KINSC Hilles 109
Talk by Jennifer Golbeck, Computer Science Distinguished Visitor
Description
The Department of Computer Science, in conjunction with the Distinguished Visitors Program, presents a talk by Jennifer Golbeck, Assistant Professor, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, entitled, “Computing with Social Trust: Web Algorithms, Social Networks, and Recommendations.”
From Golbeck's abstract:
Web-based social networks provide a wealth of publicly accessible information about people and their relationships. The trust between people in these is particularly interesting because it can be used to improve the way users access and interact with information especially user-generated content on the web. In this talk, I will present research on the two most important problems in this space. First, I will discuss methods for computing trust between people online, relying on graph algorithms and statistical analysis of user behavior and interaction. Then, I will show how these results can be used in applications where users interact with web-based information. In particular, we will look at recommender systems and see when and how trust can improve the quality of the results.
Link: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~golbeck/
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