I am an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the L3S Research Center under a supervision of Prof. Wolfgang Nejdl.

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.