Five papers from MPI-SWS have been accepted to WWW 2017:

• Fairness Beyond Disparate Treatment & Disparate Impact: Learning Classification without Disparate Mistreatment


• Modeling the Dynamics of Online Learning Activity


• Distilling Information Reliability and Source Trustworthiness from Digital Traces


• Optimizing the Recency-Relevancy Trade-off in Online News Recommendations


• Predicting the Success of Online Petitions Leveraging Multi-dimensional Time-Series

The 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) will take place in Perth, Australia in April 2017.

Two papers from MPI-SWS were accepted to ACM WSDM 2017:

• RedQueen: An Online Algorithm for Smart Broadcasting in Social Networks


• Uncovering the Dynamics of Crowdlearning and the Value of Knowledge

Patrick Loiseau, an Assistant Professor in the Data Science department at EURECOM, has been selected for a prestigious Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This award provides support for him to spend up to a year at the institute, where he will work with Krishna Gummadi and other MPI-SWS researchers on security and privacy issues in social computing systems.