Trust, Collaboration and Fairness in Virtual Social Environments

16-17 September 2010, Warsaw, Poland

Seminar Program

Invited Speakers
  • Sonja Buchegger - The Peerson Project
  • Dario Taraborelli - Inclusion/deletion in Wikipedia. A study of social processes and biases behind Wikipedia's votes for deletion and curation system (in collaboration with G.L. Ciampaglia, Lugano/Zurich)
  • Alastair Gill - Communicating trust and social information in computer-mediated environments
  • Thanasis G. Papaioannou - Privacy-aware and highly-available OSN profiles


Preliminary Program

Day 1
9:00 – Introduction: the mTeam and uTrust projects - Adam Wierzbicki
10:00 – Coffee break
10:30 – Practical trust management with the uTrust library - Tomasz Kaszuba
12:00 – Efficient and correct trust propagation using CloseLook - Grzegorz Wierzowiecki
12:30 – Communicating trust and social information in computer-mediated environments - Alastair Gill
13:30 – Lunch break
15:00 – Privacy-aware and highly-available OSN profiles - Thanasis G. Papaioannou
15:30 – The Peerson Project - Sonja Buchegger

Day 2
9:00 – Emergence of fairness due to Trust Management - Radosław Nielek
9:30 – Spiral of hatred in Internet auction comments - Radosław Nielek
10:00 – Coffee break
10:30 – An improved TM system for Internet Auctions - Adam Wierzbicki
11:00 – Overview of the P2PM Middleware - Paulina Adamska and Konrad Adamczyk
12:00 – Inclusion/deletion in Wikipedia. A study of social processes and biases behind Wikipedia's votes for deletion and curation system - Dario Taraborelli
13:00 – Lunch break
14:30 – Learning about teamwork from Wikiteams - Piotr Turek
15:00 – On the origin of controversy in Wikipedia - Chenliang Li
15:30 – Multidimensional egonetworks from personal communication history - Aleksandra Doniec
16:00 – P2P Storage: Between Fairness and Anarchy - Krzysztof Rządca

The seminar program is tentative.