Distributed Information Systems, Social Information Model
Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics
Kyoto University

• Professor: YOSHIKAWA Masatoshi
• Associate Professor: MA Qiang
• Program-Specific Associate Professor: SUGIYAMA Kazunari

Please refer to the Research Topics page.
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(Yoshikawa has stopped accepting new students.　Ma does not accept research students.)

• Jan. 2023 The following paper has been accepted at The 28th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications(DASFAA 2023):
  • Chengyang Ye (D3) and Qiang Ma:“GP-HLS: Gaussian Process Based Unsupervised High-Level Semantics Representation Learning of Multivariate Time Series”
• Dec. 2022 The following paper has been accepted at The 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023):
  • Taishi Hosokawa (Master graduate), Adam Jatowt, and Kazunari Sugiyama: “Temporal Natural Language Inference: Evidence-based Evaluation of Temporal Text Validity”
• Oct. 2022 Dr. Yang Cao moved to Hokkaido University.
• Aug. 2022 The following papers have been accepted at The 21st IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT2022):
  • Yosuke Saito (D2) and Kazunari Sugiyama: “Job Recommendation Based on Multiple Behaviors and Explicit Preference”
  • Akihiro Kokubo (Master graduate) and Kazunari Sugiyama: “Explainable Recommendation Enhancing Review Properties and PPLM”
• Aug. 2022 Peng (D2)'s paper, “SVD-GCN: A Simplified Graph Convolution Paradigm for Recommendation” has been accepted at The 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2022).
• Apr. 2022 Peng (D2)'s paper, "Less is More: Reweighting Important Spectral Graph Features for Recommendation" has been accepted at The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2022).

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