1. Web Science SoSe2013 Prof. Wolfgang Nejdl Assistant: Sergej Zerr, Xiaofei Zhu

2. Aim of the Course Insights into contemporary research Introduction to Web Science: a new interdisciplinary research area

3. Topics Introductory lecture per topic State-of-the-art or reference research articles presenting recent advances in the topic Each student has to present one article in the second part of the course (starting June 11)

4. Topics 1. Semantic Web (Helmi) 2. Collaborative Web (Sergej) 3. Mining the Social Web (Asmelash) 4. Ontologies (Helmi) 5. Query Recommendation (Xiaofei) 6. Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval (Ernesto) 7. Recommender Systems (Ernesto)

5. Student Paper Presentations Each student pick at least two papers One will be attributed or presentation First-come first-served Latest possible subscription: June 5 Coaches help students understand papers and give feedback on the presentations

6. Schedule Overview Web Science Overview by Prof. Nejdl: April 09 Topic Introductory Lectures: April 14 – June 4 Student Paper Presentations: June 11 – July 13

7. Oral Exam Detailed questions on the paper you presented More general questions on other presented papers

8. Course Web Page http://www2.kbs.uni- hannover.de/WebScience.html Contact person: Sergej Zerr (zerr@L3S.de), Office 1513, Xiaofei Zhu (zhu@l3s.de) Office 1512, Appelstr. 9zhu@l3s.de Questions?