I’m a Ph.D student at Technische Universität Berlin, at the DAI lab. Previous to this I was a student at Chalmers University of Technology.

Publications

[to appear] A. Said, S. Berkovsky, E.W. De Luca. Putting things in context. ACM RecSys 2010 Challenge on Context-aware Movie Recommendaton (CAMRa), 2010, [to appear]. Barcelona, Spain
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[link] A. Said, J. Kunegis, E.W. De Luca. Exploiting hierarchical tags for context-awareness. ACM CIKM 2010 Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations for Information Retrieval (ESAIR), 2010, [to appear]. Toronto, Canada
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[to appear] G. Adomavicius, A. Tuzhilin, S. Berkovsky, E.W. De Luca, A. Said. Context-awareness in Recommender Systems.  ACM RecSys 2010, [to appear], Barcelona, Spain.
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[link] A. Said. Identifying and Utilizing Contextual Data in Hybrid Recommender Systems. ACM RecSys 2010, [to appear], Barcelona, Spain.
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[link] A. Said, E.W. De Luca. How social relationships affect user similarities. IUI 2010 workshop on Social Recommender Systems, 2010. Hong Kong, China
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[link] A. Said, R. Wetzker, W. Umbrath, L. Hennig. A Hybrid PLSA Approach for Warmer Cold Start in Folksonomy Recommendation. ACM RecSys 2009 Workshop on Recommender Systems & The Social Web, 2009. New York, NY, USA
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[link] R. Wetzker, A. Said, C. Zimmermann. Understanding the user: Personomy translation for tag-recommendation. ECML-PKDD 2009 Discovery Challenge, 2009. Bled, Slovenia
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[link] R. Wetzker, W. Umbrath, A. Said. A hybrid approach to item recommendation in folksonomies. ACM WSDM 2009 workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval (ESAIR), 2009. Barcelona, Spain

other

[*] ACM IUI2011 workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieveal and Recommendation – Chair

[*] ACM RecSys 2010 challenge on Context-Aware Movie Recommendation – Chair

[*] ACM RecSys 2010 workshop on Context-Aware Recommender Systems – PC

[*] ACM RecSys 2010 and (EC-TEL) dataTEL Challenge on Sharing datasets for Technology-Enhanced Learning – Steering Committee

[*] IPMU 2010 special session on Uncertainty in Network Mining – PC

teaching

[*] Databases @Chalmers (2008)
[*] Distributed Applications @Chalmers (2008)
[*] OO Programming, Advanced course @Chalmers(2008)
[*] OO programming @Chalmers(2007)
[*] etc..