Keynote Speaker - Prof. Chunyan Miao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Website)
Topic: Game with a Purpose Abstract In recent years, human computation has emerged to be a potent approach for solving many challenging problems that computer automation was not able to address efficiently. The famous example of CAPTCHA, in which people identify alphanumeric characters for authentication purposes while simultaneously (and unconsciously) contribute to digitizing pre-computer age publications, is one of the most impactful use of human computation. In this talk, I will share our experience in building a gamified environment for serious research purposes to harness the power of human computation. Our serious game platform is designed around the principles of Congestion Game Theory to study human strategies in task delegation under various conditions. Equipped with unobtrusive data collection technology, our platform has collected a large scale dataset of over 150,000 decision trajectory data records from 2,700 games played by over 400 unique users so far. Preliminary analysis has yielded interesting results that can have significant implications for research in designing human-inspired resource allocation strategies which are important to network optimization.
Dr. Miao is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Engineering and the Director of the Joint NTU-UBC Research Centre of Excellence in Active Living for the Elderly (LILY) Nanyang Technological University. Professor Miao received her PhD degree in computer engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She has been Post-doctoral Fellow in the School of computing, Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada. She was an Associate Professor in Master of Digital Media program jointly established by SFU and University of British Columbia. Professor Miao’s research interests include software agent, human computation, interactive digital media, and data analytics to support future learning, active aging and smart liveable city. She has published over 200 journal and conference papers and has served on the technical program committees of many international conferences. She has been the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Information Technology. She was General Chair of the 1st International Conference on Ageless Aging in 2013. Professor Miao received Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship for research collaboration with Harvard university and MIT. She was a founding faculty member of the Center for Digital Media which is jointly managed by the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. She has received five best paper awards from international conferences in ICT. In the past ten years, she has led various national research projects in ICT in education, interactive digital media and intelligent healthcare.
Keynote Speaker - Prof. Xiaolong Jin, Chinese Academic of Sciences
Topic: Interaction Group Identification in Social Networks - A Game-Theoretic Approach Abstract There are often enormous interactions among users of online social networking services. Based on their interactions and the corresponding contents, the users can be clustered into interaction groups with different interests. In this study, we propose a game-theoretic approach to formulating the dynamics of users' participation into interaction groups on a social network formed by users' interrelationships. A partition of the social network into interaction groups corresponds to an equilibrium of the game. In the proposed approach, each node is represented by a selfish agent that performs actions to join or leave interaction groups according to its utility. For the purpose of validation, we conduct experiments on a real-world data set collected from Facebook. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach in identifying interaction groups in social networks. Dr. Jin is an Associate Professor with the CAS Key Lab of Network Data Science and Technology, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He obtained the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2005. His research interests include social computing, multi-agent systems, performance modelling and evaluation. He has published over 95 papers in international journals, including IEEE ToC, IEEE TWC, IEEE TPDS, and conferences, including CIKM, WWW, AAMAS, ICC, AINA. He co-authored two monographs published by Springer and Tsinghua University Press in 2004 and 2003, respectively. He received the IEEE Best Paper Award at the IEEE 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA'07). He has served on the technical and executive committees of more than 50 conferences and workshops.
