Computer Science - Seminar Event
Location: 2180 Research Building XV, Corporate Research CenterThe speaker is Prof. Noshir Contractor, Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University. The abstract of his seminar is the following: Recent advances in Web Science provide comprehensive digital traces of social actions, interactions, and transactions. These data provide an unprecedented exploratorium to model the socio-technical motivations for creating, maintaining, dissolving, and reconstituting multidimensional social networks. Multidimensional networks include multiple types of nodes (people, documents, datasets, tags, etc.) and multiple types of relationships (co-authorship, citation, web links, etc.). Using examples from research in team science and massively multiplayer online games, Contractor will argue that Web Science serves as the foundation for the development of social network theories and methods to help advance our ability to understand the emergence of effective multidimensional networks. More importantly, he will argue that these insights will also enable multidimensional networks by building a new generation of recommender systems that leverage our research insights on the socio-technical motivations for creating ties.
Contact: T. M. Murali
Email: murali@cs.vt.edu
Phone: 5402318534