May 19, 2009, 6:12 pm
Fil Menczer is one of the organizers of Hypertext 2009, the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext an Hypermedia. The conference will be held June 29-July 1 at the Villa Gualino Convention Centre, on the hills overlooking Torino, Italy. Hypertext is the main venue for high quality peer-reviewed research on “linking.” The Web, the Semantic Web, the Web 2.0, and Social Networks are all manifestations of the success of the link. With a 70% increase in submissions, Hypertext 2009 will have a strong and diverse technical program covering all research concerning links: their semantics, their presentation, the applications, as well as the knowledge that can be derived from their analysis and their effects on society. The conference will also feature demos, posters, a student research competition, four workshops, and keynotes by Lada Adamic and Ricardo Baeza-Yates.
February 19, 2009, 7:29 pm
Networks & agents Network
NaN is a research group exploring complex systems, adaptive agents, modeling, simulation, artificial life, and complex (information, biological, and social) networks. We especially focus on the Web as a complex information network in which we leave abundant traces of our social and semantic activities: what we do, what we are interested in, whom we talk to, what knowledge we acquire and contribute. Our research spans from modeling the dynamic processes that occur on the Web (how information networks grow and evolve, how individual and collective traffic patterns emerge, how attention bursts are generated and shaped by social and search tools) to designing tools that mine the Web to build better search, navigation, management, and recommendation tools (where ‘better’ means more intelligent, autonomous, robust, personalized, contextual, scalable, adaptive, and so on).
We have many ongoing collaborations with colleagues in the Complex Networks Lagrange Lab at the Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI) Foundation in Torino, Italy.
Active NaN projects
GiveALink
Sixearch
Web Traffic
Network Flow Analysis
Web Security
Web Dynamics
Search Bias
Text & Link Modeling
Archived NaN projects
InfoSpiders
Web Topologies
IntelliShopper
ELSA
LEE
BioNets
ACE
November 21, 2007, 6:30 pm
The Workshop on Theoretical Aspects and Models of Large, Complex and Open Information Networks just ended at ISI. There were lots of interesting talks. I presented Mark’s work on the Web click network, and Ben talked about GiveALink. Thanks to the organizers, especially Alain Barrat, as well as the ISI staff for a smooth and fun program!
April 7, 2004, 7:21 pm
A result linking the evolution of document networks (such as the Web) to textual content was mentioned in New Scientist; the paper appeared in a Sackler Colloquium issue of PNAS on Mapping Knowledge Domains, which received coverage by NSF, ScienceDaily, ACM TechNews, BBC News, etc.
November 13, 2002, 7:27 pm
The paper 
Research and Creativity Activity profiles 