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…

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…

CIKM Call for Papers: 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (Galway, Ireland)

From 19 to 23 October 2020, the CIKM conference will take place in Galway, Ireland, and the call for papers has just been released. The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) is a key event for the international academic, business and government communities to discuss research on information retrieval, 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…

Photos from the TPDL 2013

The 17th International Conference on Digital Libraries (TPDL2013) is almost over. There were many interesting presentations, great weather, and awesome food :-). I took some pictures, that you also find on Facebook, G+, or as a single file download on Dropbox.

Docear at JCDL 2013 in Indianapolis (USA), three demo papers, proof-reading wanted

Three of our submissions to the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) were accepted. They relate to recommender systems, reference management, and pdf metadata extraction:

Docear4Word: Reference Management for Microsoft Word based on BibTeX and the Citation Style Language (CSL)

In this demo-paper we introduce Docear4Word. Docear4Word enables researchers to insert and format their references and bibliographies in Microsoft Word, based on BibTeX and the Citation Style Language (CSL). Docear4Word features over 1,700 citation styles (Harvard, IEEE, ACM, etc.), is published as open source tool on http://docear.org, and runs with Microsoft Word 2002 and later on Windows XP and later. Docear4Word is similar to the MS-Word add-ons that reference managers like Endnote, Zotero, or Citavi offer with the difference that it is being developed to work with the de-facto standard BibTeX and hence to work with almost any reference manager.

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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)