Our Publication at the ECIR 2024: Revealing the Hidden Impact of Top-N Metrics on Optimization in Recommender Systems

Recently, we were delighted to learn that our paper “Revealing the Hidden Impact of Top-N Metrics on Optimization in Recommender Systems” was accepted for the “Full Paper” track at the ECIR 2024. The paper, co-authored by members of our chair, the Intelligent Systems Group, will be presented by one of Read more…

The ISG Siegen presents four papers at the ACM Conference Series on Recommender Systems 2023 (ACM RecSys 2023)

Our Ph.D. students, Tobias Vente, and Lukas Wegmeth, will attend the ACM RecSys 2023 conference in Singapore to present their latest work on Automated Recommender Systems (AutoRecSys) with four papers: two in the Doctoral Symposium, one in the PERSPECTIVES 2023 Workshop, and one in the Demo track. We already posted Read more…

Tobias Vente and Lukas Wegmeth will present their Ph.D. research goals at the ACM RecSys 2023 Doctoral Symposium in Singapore

The ACM RecSys 2023 Doctoral Symposium Chairs accepted the extended abstracts that Tobias Vente and Lukas Wegmeth submitted. Abstracts will be presented by their authors and discussed with the chairs and other students at the conference. The extended abstract was limited to eight pages, and an unusually high amount of Read more…

Prof. Beel at ‘Schloss Dagstuhl’ seminar 23031 ‘Frontiers of Information Access Experimentation for Research and Education’

Update 2023-05: The report is now available on arXiv.org. Prof. Beel was invited to attend the Dagstuhl seminar about ‘Frontiers of Information Access Experimentation for Research and Education‘. The seminar took place from January 15 to January 20, 2023 in Schloss Dagstuhl, and was organized by Christine Bauer (Utrecht University, Read more…

Our Publication at the PERSPECTIVES 2022 Workshop @ RecSys 2022 – CaMeLS: Cooperative Meta-Learning Service for Recommender Systems

With great delight, we had the opportunity to discuss our paper on our vision of a novel way to utilize the advantages of meta-learning in recommender systems at the 2nd Workshop: Perspectives on the Evaluation of Recommender Systems @ ACM Recommender Systems 2022. We had plenty of amazing discussions on Read more…

Prof. Beel diskutiert auf der GAIN Jahrestagung: Karrieremöglichkeiten für Doktoranden und PostDocs

Auf Einladung des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes (DAAD) nehme ich am 25. August bei einer Panel-Diskussion auf der GAIN Jahrestagung teil. Ich freue mich dort u.a. neben Prof. Dr. Wolfram Ressel (Rektor der Universität Stuttgart) und Prof. Dr. Andreas Zaby (Präsident der HWR Berlin) einen kurzen Vortrag zu halten, und dann Read more…

26th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, hosted by Trinity College Dublin

AICS’2018: We Co-Organize the 26th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science

We are delighted to announce the 26th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS’2018), which we will co-organize together with Rob Brennan, Ruth Byrne, Jeremy Debattista, and a renowned program committee. AICS 2018 takes place from December 6 to 7, 2018 at Trinity College Dublin, more precisely in the Long Room Read more…

Hypertext 2010 Security Hole: All papers downloadable and editable by anyone (2 month before conference start)

In June the ACM Hypertext 2010 will take place in Toronto. Some days ago I wanted to upload the camera ready versions of three papers being accepted at the conference. And… I was surprised. By email I got a link to a web page (namely

http://www.sheridanprinting.com/acm/sigweb-ht/sigweb-ht.cfm?id=ht104,

http://www.sheridanprinting.com/acm/sigweb-ht/sigweb-ht.cfm?id=ht105, and

http://www.sheridanprinting.com/acm/sigweb-ht/sigweb-ht.cfm?id=ht121)

on which I could upload my camera ready papers, specify the authors, keywords, etc. No password or other kind of authorization had to be entered. Now, guess what. I played around with the URL and tried, for instance, to open the following URLs in my browser.

http://www.sheridanprinting.com/acm/sigweb-ht/sigweb-ht.cfm?id=ht100

http://www.sheridanprinting.com/acm/sigweb-ht/sigweb-ht.cfm?id=ht107

You can probably guess what happened: I could edit the details (and see the private email addresses the primary authors provided) and upload PDF files for the other papers being accepted at Hypertext just by changing the URL. That means, I could have added or modified the author list, changed the title or uploaded a modied PDF.

The screenshot shows the user interface on which I could have changed the data for the paper “Dealing with the Video Tidal Wave: The Relevance of Expertise for Video Tagging” by Sara Darvish and Alvin Chin (here is a list of all papers being accepted at Hypertext 2010)