After the successful final review meeting held on 10th, July in Madrid, here arrives the approved review report for the SEALS project that KMi has been significantly involved with for the last three years. The overall assessment rating is EXCELLENT. The report states that the SEALS project has fully achieved its objectives and technical goals…
Drahomira Herrmannova was awarded the Prize of Zdena Rabova by the Brno University of Technology. This prize is awarded annually by the dean of the faculty to two students for excellent study and science results. The nomination was supported by Drahomira’s diploma thesis, which she wrote during her period at KMi and which was based on paper by Drahomira…
And the best paper award of the ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing goes to ……. Claudia Wagner, Matthew Rowe, Markus Strohmaier and Harith Alani: "Ignorance isn’t Bliss: An Empirical Analysis of Attention Patterns in Online Communities" This paper presents work that identifies attention patterns in community forums and shows how such patterns differ between communities of…
OpenMinds, The Open University’s refreshed Alumni magazine, launched this month, featuring the work of KMi’s Simon Buckingham Shum. Read all about how information overload, sensemaking and complexity!… (With thanks to our SysAdmin team for loaning the KMI server room for dramatic shots!) Related Links: OpenMinds online version
Adam Rae became the 9th KMi student in the last year to successfully defended their PhD thesis on Friday 4th November. His thesis is entitled “Exploiting Social Networks for Recommendation in Online Image Sharing Systems” and experimental work undertaken during his studies has produced systems that help users in systems like Flickr to add more…
DiscoBro, an application developed by Mathieu d’Aquin from KMi, is one of the three winners of a developer competition organized by the Resource Discovery Task Force and also won the award for the best use of the MusicNet linked dataset. The aim of the competition was to demonstrate the benefits of open data and metadata…
The KMi submission authored by Petr Knoth, Vojtech Robotka and Zdenek Zdrahal entitled: ” Connecting Repositories in the Open Access Domain using Text Mining and Semantic Data” won the Best Poster/Demo Award at the International Conference on Theory and Practise of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2011) which is this week taking place in Berlin, Germany. The…
The KMI team consisting of Petr Knoth, Lukas Zilka and Zdenek Zdrahal scored first in the NTCIR CrossLink competition in the manual assessment category in A2F P@5. The team placed consistently in the top three in other categories. Twelve international teams took part in the evaluation. NTCIR is a major forum (similar to TREC) of…
Matthew Rowe and Harith Alani won the Best Paper Award at the Web Science Conference 2011, located in Koblenz, Germany, for their paper in collaboration with Marcel Karnstedt, Jeffrey Chan and Conor Hayes from National University of Ireland, Galway titled ‘The Effect of User Features on Churn in Social Networks’. The paper explored how ‘churn’…
Mathieu d’Aquin, Fouad Zablith and Enrico Motta have won the best demo award at this year’s Extended Semantic Web Conference, which took place in Crete last week. The demostration concerned wayOU, a mobile app based on Linked Data, which supports social location tracking at the Open University. wayOU enables Open University staff and students to…
