International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN 2009)
June 24 – 27, 2009, Fontainebleau, France
Conference Objective:
Social networks provide a powerful abstraction of the structure and dynamics of diverse kinds of people or people-to-technology interaction. These social network systems are usually characterized by the complex network structures and rich accompanying contextual information. Recent trends also [...]
Archive for Rachel Yager
Dr. Rachel Yager specializes in developing strategies for using new emerging Web technologies to attain high impact business solutions. She has expertise in computational intelligence, knowledge engineering, and business analytics for decision support. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Information Systems, Masters and Bachelor Degree in Engineering. She advises companies on digital architecture, emerging technologies, and new product R&D.
Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN 2009)
Web Intelligence (WI) Conference: September 15-18, 2009
Web Intelligence (WI) is a new research paradigm aimed at exploring the fundamental interactions between AI-engineering and Advanced Information Technology (AIT) on the next generation of Web systems, services, and etc. Here AI-engineering is a general term that refers to a new area, slightly beyond traditional AI: brain informatics, human level AI, intelligent agents, social [...]
January 5th, 2009 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2009)
The 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2009) will be jointly held with the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence at the University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy, and it will be sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII), the Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), and ACM-SIGART.
For [...]
The ‘Digital Human’ and the Semantic Web
My interview by JupiterMedia back in May is below. The original article can be found at http://www.semanticweb.com/article.php/3749916.
The ‘Digital Human’ and the Semantic Web
May 29, 2008
By Jennifer Zaino
No doubt about it, the technology behind the semantic web is truly disruptive. The challenge for companies will be to figure out how to provide applications based on it [...]
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering (CIFEr 2009)
March 30–April 2, 2009, Nashville, TN, http://www.ieee-ssci.org/
The CIFEr Conference is the major collaboration between the professional engineering and financial communities, and is one of the leading forums for new technologies and applications in the intersection of computational intelligence and financial engineering. Intelligent computational systems have [...]
International Conference on Intelligent System and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE2008)
ISKE 2008 is the 3th International Conference on Intelligent System & Knowledge Engineering. The conference this year is technically co-sponsored by IEEE, Ghent University and Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, and organized by Xiamen University, Fuzhou University, Fujian Agri. & Fore. University, Jimei University, Sanming University and Hunan Institute of Humanities, Science & Tech.. It will [...]
October 24th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
Top 10 Global Brands: Economic Value of a Name
The Top 10 Global Brands as reported by BusinessWeek and Interbrand on September 2008 are:
1 COCA-COLA
2 IBM
3 MICROSOFT
4 GE
5 NOKIA
6 TOYOTA
7 INTEL
8 McDONALD’S
9 DISNEY
10 GOOGLE
BusinessWeek and Interbrand follow an interesting 3-step approach in measuring the “economic value” of a brand, as quoted below:
STEP ONE is calculating how much of a company’s total sales falls under [...]
Barcode September 11, Lost and Found
Many of you know that I am one of the survivors of September 11th, escaping the WTC North Tower when New York City was attacked.
But I never told you the amazing effort of our city’s recovery.
On August 26th 2004, just 2 weeks shy of the annual anniversary, NYPD called me. An officer told me [...]
When He’s a She, an Olympic Challenge for Natural Language Understanding
Here is a big challenge for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Semantics experts!
In a recent article – State-media story fuels questions on gymnast’s age – about He Kexin, a Chinese gymnast, this funny line appeared:
He herself told reporters after Wednesday’s final that “my real age is 16. I don’t pay any attention to what everyone [...]
Last Lecture from Randy Pausch
I am sad to learn that Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose “last lecture” about facing terminal cancer became an international sensation and a best-selling book, died today early Friday at his home in Virginia.
On my site, I only talk about people and scientists whom I know. But [...]
