Workshop program

• 09:00 - 9:10 Opening and introductions

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• 09:10 - 10:15 Session: Leveraging the graph
• Improving Social Recommendations by applying a Personalized Item Clustering policy (15+5)
  Georgios Alexandridis, Giorgos Siolas and Andreas Stafylopatis
• Social Web Recommendation using Metapaths (15+5)
  Robin Burke and Fatemeh Vahedian
• Recommendation of shopping places based on social and geographical influences (15+5)
  Romain Picot-Clemente and Cecile Bothorel
• Discussion



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• 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break

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• 10:45 - 12:00 Session: Users and Groups
• Structural Diversity in Social Recommender Systems (15+5)
  Xinyi Huang, Mitul Tiwari and Sam Shah
• A Sentiment-Based Approach to Twitter User Recommendation (short paper) (10+5)
  Davide Feltoni Gurini, Fabio Gasparetti, Alessandro Micarelli and Giuseppe Sansonetti
• Social Recommendations for Events (short paper) (10+5)
  Toon De Pessemier, Jeroen Minnaert, Kris Vanhecke, Simon Dooms and Luc Martens
• On the Intrinsic Challenges of Group Recommendation (short paper) (10+5)
  Nafiseh Shabib, Jon Atle Gulla and John Krogstie Presentation cancelled
• Discussion



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• 12:00 - 12:15 Demo: A Research Platform for Recommendation within Social Networks

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• 12:15 - 14:00 Lunch

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• 14:00 - 14:45 Invited talk by Barry Smyth: Opinionated Product Recommendation: Mining User-Generated Reviews for Recommendation Knowledge

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• 14:45 - 15:45 Session: Tags
• Tag Recommendations for SensorFolkSonomies (15+5)
  Jürgen Müller, Stephan Dörfel, Martin Becker, Andreas Hotho and Gerd Stumme
• STRec: An Improved Graph-based Tag Recommender (15+5)
  Modou Gueye, Talel Abdessalem and Hubert Naacke
• FoldCons: A Simple Way To Improve Tag Recommendation (short paper) (10+5)
  Modou Gueye, Talel Abdessalem and Hubert Naacke
• Discussion



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• 15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break

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• 16:15 - 18:00 Discussion or break-out sessions and wrap up

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