EAGER: Personalization and social networking for short-term communities

这一建议以一种新颖的方式探索了一种未被充分研究的社会现象--短期专业社区的性质和动态。现代基于社区的系统，如社交网络和推荐系统，到目前为止在适用于大型、长期社区方面实际上受到了限制。这项提议所涉及的研究目标是最大限度地在短期专业社区中寻找信息和人员。调查的主题是专业研究会议(一种特定的小型短期社区)。该项目将探索新的方法来利用已经从多种外部来源获得的关于用户兴趣和联系人的信息，并为现有的社交技术开发贯穿各领域的技术。

This proposal explores in a novel fashion an understudied social phenomenon - the nature and dynamics of short-term professional communities. Modern community-based systems such as social networking and recommender systems have to date been effectively limited in applicability to large, long-term communities. The research goal addressed by this proposal is to maximize information- and people-finding in short-term professional communities. The subject of the investigation is professional research conferences (a specific kind of small short-term community). The project will explore new methods to leverage information about user interests and contacts, which is already available from multiple external sources, and develop cross-cutting techniques for existing social technologies.