Managing General and Individual Knowledge in Crowdsourcing Applications

Speaker:        Professor Tova Milo
                Tel Aviv University

Title:          "Managing General and Individual Knowledge in
                 Crowdsourcing Applications"

Date:           Thursday, 10 Dec 2015

Time:           3:00pm - 4:30 pm

Venue:          IAS Lecture Theater
                Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST

Abstract:

Modern data analysis combines general knowledge stored in databases with
individual knowledge obtained from the crowd, capturing people habits and
preferences. To account for such mixed knowledge, along with user
interaction and optimization issues, crowd mining platforms must employ a
complex process of reasoning, automatic crowd task generation and result
analysis. In this talk, the speaker will describe a generic architecture
for crowd mining applications. This architecture allows us to examine and
compare the components of existing crowdsourcing systems and point out
extensions required by crowd mining. It also highlights new research
challenges and potential reuse of existing techniques/components. The
speaker will exemplify this for the OASSIS project, a system developed by
her research group, and for other prominent crowdsourcing frameworks.


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Biography:

Prof Tova Milo received her PhD in Computer Science from the Hebrew
University, Jerusalem in 1992. She then worked in the INRIA research
institute in Paris and University of Toronto before returned to Israel in
1995. Prof Milo joined the School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv
University in 1995 and she is currently a Professor and the head of the
Database research group and holds the Chair of Information Management.

Prof Milo's research focuses on advanced database applications such as
data integration, XML and semi-structured information, Data-centered
Business Processes and Crowd-sourcing, studying both theoretical and
practical aspects.

Prof Milo served as the Program Chair of several international conferences
and a member of the VLDB Endowment and the ICDT executive board. She also
served as the chair of the PODS Executive Committee and an editor of TODS
and the Logical Methods in Computer Science Journal. She received grants
from the Israel Science Foundation, the US-Israel Binational Science
Foundation, the Israeli and French Ministry of Science and the European
Union. She was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing
Machinery, a member of Academia Europaea, and a recipient of the 2010 ACM
PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award.


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For attendees' attention:

-The lecture is free and open to all. Seating is on a first come, first
served basis.

-Light refreshments will be served from 4:30 to 5:00 pm.


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