Contact information

Adriana Budura Office (map): EPFL IC IIF LSIR BC 130 Station 14 1015 Lausanne Switzerland Phone: +41 21 693.52.60 Fax: +41 21 693 8115 E-mail:

Publications

Deriving Expertise Profiles From Tags, Adriana Budura, Daniela Bourges-Waldegg, James Riordan IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2009)

Neighborhood-based Tag Prediction, Adriana Budura, Sebastian Michel, Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, Karl Aberer 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009)

From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and back - How did your Grandma use to tag?, Sheila Kinsella, Adriana Budura, Gleb Skobeltsyn, Sebastian Michel, John G. Breslin, Karl Aberer 10th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2008)

PicShark: Mitigating Metadata Scarcity through Large-Scale P2P Collaboration, Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, Adriana Budura, Manfred Hauswirth and Karl Aberer The VLDB Journal, 17(6), pp. 1371-1384, 2008

To Tag or Not to Tag - Harvesting Adjacent Metadata in Large-Scale Tagging Systems, Adriana Budura, Sebastian Michel, Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, Karl Aberer The 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (Poster Track)  (SIGIR 2008)

Self-Organizing Schema Mappings in the GridVine Peer Data Management System, Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, Suchit Agarwal, Adriana Budura, Parisa Haghani, Karl Aberer The 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2007)

From bioinformatic web portals to semantically integrated Data Grid networks, Adriana Budura, Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, Karl Aberer Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems  Volume 23, Issue 3, March 07

Analyzing Semantic Interoperability in Bioinformatic Database Networks, Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, Julien Gaugaz, Adriana Budura and Karl Aberer Semantic Network Analysis Workshop at ISWC 2005

Professional Activities

Sep. '09  Participant in the ESSIR '09

Oct. '08 - Feb. '09  Internship at the IBM Research Laboratory in Zurich

Oct. '08  Invited talk at the DBTA Workshop on Information Retrieval: from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0

External Reviewer: WebDB '09, LSDS-IR '09, VLDB '08, SIGIR '08, ISWC '08, SIGMOD '07, WISE '07,  ESWC '07, P2PIR '07

Teaching

Assistant

• Distributed Information Systems (2005, 2006, 2007)
• Introduction to Information Systems (2006)

Projects supervised

• Sharing Images and metadata with PicShark (Master project) - Youssef Maarfi, EPFL, 2006
• Analysis of the online promotions conducted by Philip Morris
  and its subsidiaries in 2007(Semester project) - Herrmann Alexandre, EPFL, 2007

Projects

• NCCR-MICS, Mobile Information and Communication Systems (Swiss NSF project).

• GridVine

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