Dr. Ashwin Ram (Innovation Fellow, PARC) http://www.ashwinram.org Bio: Dr. Ashwin Ram is Innovation Fellow & Area Manager of socio-cognitive computing at PARC, Director of the Cognitive Computing Lab and Associate Professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, and co-founder of OpenStudy.com which is an online social learning network for students and faculty. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1989, his MS from University of Illinois in 1984, and his BTech from IIT Delhi in 1982. He has published 2 books and over 100 scientific articles in international forums. In addition to OpenStudy, he is a founder of Enkia Corporation (recently acquired by Sentiment360) which develops AI software for social media applications.
Title of the talk	Healthcare 2.0 - Social Networks for Health & Wellness
Abstract	The Internet has surpassed physicians as the leading source of health information. With the advent of the social web, Health 2.0 is emerging as a strong segment with 34% of consumers using social resources such as blogs and forums to locate health information. Yet information overload leads to "search engine fatigue" that discourages users. We advocate a consumer-centric approach to healthcare information access that increases engagement and improves health literacy. Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques can be used to support human effort, creating a new generation of "intelligent web" technologies. These technologies can combine the benefits of the "information web" (timely, relevant health information) with those of the "social web" (human interaction, support, comfort). Our vision is to promote well-being and prevention before illness, support and information during illness, and comfort to family and friends in a natural, social, yet private manner.

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• 9:00-9:30: Muhammad Fahad, Olivier Boissier, Pierre Maret and Christophe Gravier, "Smart Places: Multi-Agent based Virtual Community Management System" [workshop slides]
• 9:30-10:00: Sebastián A. Ríos, Roberto A. Silva and Felipe Aguilera, "A Dissimilarity Measure for Automate Moderation in Online Social Networks" [workshop slides]
• 10:00-10:30: Andrei Ciortea, Yann Krupa and Laurent Vercouter, "Designing Privacy-Aware Social Networks: A Multi-Agent Approach" [workshop slides]

• 11:00-11:30: Gema Bello Orgaz, David F. Barrero, David Camacho and Maria D. R-Moreno, "Clustering avatars behaviours from Virtual Worlds interactions" [workshop slides]
• 11:30-12:00: Saulo Pedro and Estevam Hruschka Junior, "Collective Intelligence as a Source for Machine Learning Self-Supervision" [workshop slides]
• 12:00-12:30: Remy Cazabet, Leguistin Maud and Frederic Amblard, "Automated Community Detection on Social Networks: Useful ? Efficient ? Asking the users" [workshop slides]

• 14:00-15:00: Ashwin Ram, "Healthcare 2.0 - Social Networks for Health & Wellness" [presentation slides]

• 16:00-16:30: Jan-Willem Van'T Klooster, Catherine Combes and Bert-Jan Van Beijnum, "Towards decision support for a home care services platform" [workshop slides]
• 16:30-17:00: Victor De Graaff, Maurice Van Keulen and Rolf A. De By, "Towards Geosocial Recommender Systems" [workshop slides]
• 17:00-17:30: Yi Zeng, Ning Zhong, Xu Ren and Yan Wang, "User Interests Driven Web Personalization Based on Multiple Social Networks" [workshop slides]

• Multi-agent models and tools for Virtual Communities (VC)
• Services and Grid Services for VC, Service oriented architectures
• Web information mining, filtering and retrieval within/for VC
• Web-based applications and plate-forms for VC
• Intelligent web interaction, querying, diffusion
• Semantics and ontology engineering for VC
• Self-* models and techniques for VC
• Social networks modelling, virtual communities, social intelligence
• Context-based approach, profile management, personalization and recommendations for/through VC
• Privacy preserving, security, trust-based computing & reputation systems
• Applications: E-* (market, procurement, technologies, health, government, etc.) and VC
• VC and content and knowledge repositories, behaviour modelling and exchange
• Web intelligence, mobility and VC, Ambient Intelligence, Pervasive computing
• Performances evaluation, experiments, user feed-back
• Semantic Web technologies for Social Data integration and fusion
• Human-based behaviour patterns and modelling
• Surveys on WI and VC

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