With the WSDM 2008 coming up, I’ve been reading up on recent writings in the social networking arena related to data mining. Following are some related papers I’d like to share.

• Recommendations in taste related domains: collaborative filtering vs. social filtering Georg Groh, Christian Ehmig; November 2007
  GROUP '07: Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Conference on supporting group work

• Efficient search ranking in social networks
  Monique V. Vieira, Bruno M. Fonseca, Rodrigo Damazio, Paulo B. Golgher, Davi de Castro Reis, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto; November 2007
  CIKM '07: Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management

• Measurement and analysis of online social networks
  Alan Mislove, Massimiliano Marcon, Krishna P. Gummadi, Peter Druschel, Bobby Bhattacharjee; October 2007
  IMC '07: Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement

• Formal analysis techniques for gossiping protocols
  Rena Bakhshi, Francois Bonnet, Wan Fokkink, Boudewijn Haverkort; October 2007
  ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review,   Volume 41 Issue 5

• Gossiping in distributed systems
  Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Maarten van Steen; October 2007
  ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review,   Volume 41 Issue 5

• Searching for experts in the enterprise: combining text and social network analysis
  Kate Ehrlich, Ching-Yung Lin, Vicky Griffiths-Fisher; November 2007
  GROUP '07: Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Conference on supporting group work

• Improving the classification of newsgroup messages through social network analysis
  Blaz Fortuna, Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Natasa Milic-Frayling; November 2007
  CIKM '07: Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management

• A constraint-based probabilistic framework for name disambiguation
  Duo Zhang, Jie Tang, Juanzi Li, Kehong Wang;November 2007
  CIKM '07: Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management

• Impact of social influence in e-commerce decision making
  Young Ae Kim, Jaideep Srivastava;August 2007
  ICEC '07: Proceedings of the ninth international conference on Electronic commerce

I’m doing the following two sessions in the upcoming Fullerton Code Camp on Jan 25 and 26th.

.NET 3.5 Enhancements for WCF :: Syndication and REST Support

ASP.NET MVC Framework - An Introduction

Code Camp is Free! Feel free to come and join the geekiness.

Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-08)

International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-08)

International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-08)

International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-08)

International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-08)

Promote Research

Server in the Sky

First ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining WSDM 2008, February 11-12, 2008, Stanford University

SVD Recommendation System in Ruby

MIT OCW Data Mining Course

How to Design Programs – MIT Press

How to Be a Good Graduate Student

Idle Scanning et al

Security and Hacking Documentation for Vulnerability Analysis

Recieved it couple of days ago...

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