On September 4, 2013, Ricardo Gomes Lage defended his PhD thesis on Methods for the Automatic Publication of Messages on Social Network Services.

IWIS proudly announces that it will host the 22nd edition of the International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization in collaboration with Visit Aalborg. The conference will be held in Hotel Hvide Hus in Aalborg, Denmark in july 2014. More information can be found at http://um.org/umap2014. We are all looking forward to meet you there.

Peter Dolog will participate in one of the prestiguos seminars organized at Dagstuhl Castles. The seminar topic is on customizing service platforms: http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=13171. Such seminars are by invitation only where experts on topics of the seminars are participating, working  and discussing on advancements in the area.

Master thesis topics for 2013/2014 starting from september 2013 are:

- hidden communities and relevant content in web social networks

- transactional management in service oriented environment on the web

Bried descriptions for each can be found in attached documents.

IWIS proudly announces that it will host the 13th edition of the International Conference on Web Engineering in collaboration with Visit Aalborg. The conference will be held in hotel Hvide Hus in Aalborg, Denmark in july 2013. More information can be found at http://icwe2013.webengineering.org. We are all looking forward to meet you there.

On February 13, 2012, Frederico Araujo Durao defended his PhD thesis on Exploiting Tag-Based Personalized for Recommendation on Social Web.

From October 24 to 28, I attended the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), in Glasgow, UK. The conference had a number of good papers in a wide range of topics, including information retrieval, social network analysis and machine learning. The conference also had two keynote speakers that talked about, respectively, improving user interfaces for better management of information, and addressing the challenges that persist in search, storage and analysis of biomedicine data.

I attended the "15th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems”, from 12 to 14 September 2011, Kaiserslautern, Germany .

The KES2011 was organized by the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and the University of Kaiserslautern, in conjunction with KES International.

The Final KiWi Review Meeting took place in Luxemburg. In the one-day-meeting, KiWi was evaluated by the European Commission about the project achievements.
 

From December 12 to 14, 2010, I have attended 10th International Conference of Web Information System & Engineering (WISE 2010) which was held in the beautiful city of Hong Kong. The conference consists of one-day workshop and two-day main conference along with four keynote talks.