2011 Web Science Trust Doctoral Summer School at DERI
Alexandre Passant
2011 Web Science Trust Doctoral Summer School at DERI
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The Digital Enterprise Research Institute, NUI Galway is pleased to announce that it will host the 2011 Web Science Trust Doctoral Summer School from July 6th until July 13th, 2011
A mix of international speakers and tutors will deliver lectures and seminars designed to provide a unique cross-disciplinary grounding in techniques for analysing the Web, understanding its relationship to society and engineering its future.
Applicants are not necessarily expected to have a computing background, though some technical knowledge of computing and the Web would be advisable. Participants will have also have an opportunity to work in small groups on topic-specific breakout sessions.
Provisional List of Topics:
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* Detecting risks and opportunities on the social Web
* Behaviour and user roles in on-line communities
* Impact of governance on collective user behaviour
* Analysing the Web as a multidimensional network
* Achieving Web Scale Networked Knowledge
* Complex Systems Analysis
* Social Dynamics of the Web
* Dynamics of emergent knowledge
Registration
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Since the number of attendees will be limited, applications for participation have to be made via Easychair. Please see the web site for further information.
http://webscience.deri.ie/registration.html
About DERI
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The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at NUI Galway (est. 1845), is one of the founding Web Science Network of Laboratories (WSTNet), employing 130 people, executing an innovative research and graduate education agenda through multi-disciplinary collaborations within NUI Galway and with other national and international research institutions. DERI has over 100 national and international project partners has acted as a coordinator and a partner in several other EU FP6 & FP7 projects such as DIP, Knowledge Web, TripCom, NEPOMUK, OKKAM, FAST and ROBUST. DERI is a leading contributor to emerging standards such as SIOC and XSPARQL. It co-organised the 2005 International Semantic Web Conference, which was held in Galway, and a workshop on FOAF, social networks and the Semantic Web in 2004.
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Dr. Alexandre Passant
Digital Enterprise Research Institute
National University of Ireland, Galway
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