Second Workshop: Pre-Workshop

PRE-WORKSHOP IN MILANO, DEI SEMINAR ROOM, May 25

The workshop will take place at the Dipartimento di Elettronica (DEI), Seminar Room (map).

May 25, 10:00 – 13:00
Session on "Search as a Process"
Organizers: Stefano Ceri, Marco Brambilla
Experts: Ricardo Baeza Yates (Yahoo! Research labs), Paolo Boldi (Università degli Studi di Milano), Gabriella Pasi (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca)

This session aims at interpreting Web-based interactions as search-enabled processes, and how innovative features of search systems can better support such processes. The workshop aims at linking SeCo research with ongoing work at Yahoo Research in Barcellona.

10:00-10:15 Stefano Ceri: Welcome and Introduction (ppt file) (audio)
10:15-10:45 Marco Brambilla: Complex Search Support in SeCo (ppt file) (audio)
10:45-11:00 Alex Bozzon: SeCo Demonstration (video) (audio)
11:00-11:40 Ricardo Baeza-Yates: New Frontiers for Search (pdf file) (audio)
11:40-13:00 Panel Discussion (moderator: Stefano Ceri) with Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Paolo Boldi, Gabriella Pasi and the SeCo Team (audio)

Panel topics:
  • Relationship between multi-domain information and exploratory search
  • Metrics and evaluation of exploratory search approaches
  • When complex is too complex: which tasks can be successfully performed by humans?
  • Social aspects of complex search


Additional Materials:

May 25, 14:30 - 17:00
Session on “Search Computing Business Strategies”
Organizer: Emanuele Della Valle
Experts: Roberto Verganti, Tommaso Buganza

This session is focused on the strategic analysis of the SeCo Project. The aim is to establish if there are the conditions to exploit the technology. Experts will present different business models analyzing their opportunities and threats.

14:30-14:45 Stefano Ceri: Welcome and Introduction
14:45-16:00 Roberto Verganti, Tommaso Buganza: Analysis of Possible Business Models (audio)
16:00-17:00 Discussion (moderators: Roberto Verganti, Tommaso Buganza)

Topics:

  • What are the possible business models?
  • Which are their strengths and weaknesses?
  • Which are their opportunities and threats