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2008: Self-AssessmentEmployee:Debora Donato Manager: Ricardo Baeza-Yates Review Period: 1 Sept, 2007 31 Aug, 2008My goals for my second year in Yahoo! Research Barcelona have been the following:- to further broaden the knowledge of the working environment and the research facilities.- to applying the skills and the knowledge acquired in the area of Data Mining and Link Analysis to the study and the characterization of implicit and explicit user behaviour as well as in other field related to Web Retrieval- to confirm the rate of research papers published in well-known conferences with collaborators within Yahoo! as well as external collaborators obtained during the first year of my activity.- to increase my visibility in the scientific and academic community via activities such as membership in Organizing and Program Committees of well-known conferences- to increase the number of file patent applications with respect the first year- to be involved in internal projects to fill up the gap I highlighted at the end of first year of my activity at Yahoo! ResearchEXTERNAL IMPACTI have 4 papers published in journals, 5 papers accepted to top conferences (1 of them accepted as poster but published in the proceedings), 4 papers accepted to workshops held in conjunction with major conference and 1 paper submitted. I was also invited to contribute with a chapter on “Next Generation Search Algorithm” for the book “Next Generation Networks” edited by Springers. Moreover I was invited to contribute to the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) ( ) coordinated by the UNESCO-EOLSS Joint Committee with a chapter on “Communication Networks: WWW and social networks” JournalsD. Donato, S. Leonardi, S. Millozzi, P. Tsaparas. Mining The Inner Structure of the Web Graph. J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41 224017, 12 pp., 2008.L. Becchetti, C. Castillo, D. Donato, S. Leonardi, R .Baeza-Yates. Link Analysis for Web Spam Detection. ACM Trans. Web 2 (1), pp.1-42, 2008.J. Xavier-Parreira, C. Castillo, D. Donato, S. Michel, G. Weikum. The JXP Method for Robust PageRank Approximation in Peer-to-Peer Web Search Network. VLDB Journal 17 (2), pp. 291-313, 2008.D. Donato, S. Leonardi, P. Tsaparas. Stability and Similarity of Link Analysis Ranking Algorithms. Special Issue of Internet Mathematics devoted to the ANAW workshop 3 (4), pp. 479-507, 2008.Top ConferencesI. Bordino, D. Donato, A. Gionis, S. Leonardi. Mining large networks with subgraph counting. Procs. of the 8th IEEE ICDM, Pisa, Italy, 6 pp., 2008 (To appear).P. Boldi, F. Bonchi, C. Castillo, D. Donato, A. Gionis, S. Vigna. The query-flow graph: model and applications. Procs of CIKM, Napa Valley, California, 10 pp., 2008 (To appear).A. Ukkonen, C. Castillo, D. Donato, A. Gionis. Searching the Wikipedia with contextual information. (Poster) Procs of CIKM, Napa Valley, California, 2008 (To appear).F. Bonchi, C. Castillo, D. Donato, A. Gionis. Topical query decomposition. Procs. of 14th ACM KDD08, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 52-60, 2008E. Agichtein, C. Castillo, D. Donato, A. Gionis, G. Mishne. Finding high quality content in social media with an application to community-based question answering. Procs. of WSDM, Stanford, California, pp. 183-194, 2008I. Bordino, P. Boldi, D. Donato, M. Santini, S. Vigna. Temporal evolution of the uk web. Procs of the Workshop on Analysis of Dynamic Networks (ICDM-ADN08), Pisa, Italy, 10 pp, 2008 (To appear)Other Conferences and WorkshopsD. Donato, S. Leonardi, M. Paniccia. Combining Transitive Trust and Negative Opinions for better Reputation Management in Social Networks. Procs. of SNAKDD, Las Vegas, Nevada, 10 pp., 2008C. Castillo, C. Corsi, D. Donato, P. Ferragina, A. Gionis. Query-log mining for detecting polysemy and spam. Procs. of WebKDD, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2008C. Castillo, C. Corsi, D. Donato, P. Ferragina, A. Gionis. Query-log mining for detecting spam. Short paper, Procs of AIRWeb, Beijing, China, 4 pp., 2008Submitted for publicationN. Perra, V. Zlatic, A. Chessa, C. Conti, D. Donato, G. Caldarelli PageRank Schroedinger-like equation: ranking top web pages through a local potentialInvited talks07/11/2008 Workshop on Social Network, Emerging Community and Technologies in the WWW, Pula, Cagliari Italy TBA27/06/2008 SIKS/Yahoo Seminar on Searching and Ranking in Structured Text Repositories, University of Twente, Enschede - The NetherlandsEfficient graph-based context-sensitive search09/04/2008 FET Proactive Workshop on Web Science - Brussels, BelgiumToward Web Science13/03/2008 Seminar 08111 - Ranked XML Querying - Dagstuhl, GermanySearching the Wikipedia with contextual information27/02/2008 Delis Final Workshop and Review Meeting - Barcelona, SpainWeb Spam Detection: link-analysis based and content based techniques04/10/2007 ECCS'07 Satellite Workshop: Enhancing Social Interaction: Recommendation Systems - Dresden, GermanyEfficient and Decentralized Page Rank Approximation in P2P Networks with Malicious AgentsProfessional activitiesOrganization of Events:Co-chair of the 6th WAW2009, Treasurer for WSDM2009, Organizing Committee of MI09 Journal reviewer for TWEB, TKDE, TCS, KAIS, JWS, IP&MProgram Committee member of HT 09, ESA 09, ICDE-3MESN 09, SIGIR 08, WWW 08, HYPERMEDIA 08, INFOSCALE 08, ECML PKDD 08.InternsI have (co)supervised Ilaria Bordino. with whom we have one paper accepted at ICDM08 and one to ICDM-AND08. I will supervise Yana Volkovich who applied for an internship for the month of November.INTERNAL IMPACTInternal ProjectProductionizing Session Breaking Project (Goal: transferring to the productionteam features and algorithms for extractinginterleaving chains; Catcher; Gene Meyer and Tom Thrall)Research Assist Project (Goal: studying a set of features and simple model for the Research Assist project; Catcher: Tom Chi)Context-Demo Project (Goal: creation of a public demo for Sandbox)Image Search Collaboration Project (Goal: using session breaking method to segment image search logs; Catcher: SriramSathish)Diversity Metrics Project (Goal: finding metrics to measure the diversity of a query result set; Catcher: Ali DasdanIDFsF. Bonchi, D. Donato, A. Gionis. Query flow graph model for session breaking. Approved D. Donato, A. Gionis., C. Corsi, P. Ferragina. Query-log mining for detecting spam hosts. Filed D. Donato, A. Gionis., C. Corsi, P. Ferragina.Query-log mining for detecting spam-attracting queries. Filed F. Bonchi, D. Donato, A. Gionis. Diverse query recommendation via weighted set cover. Approved F. Bonchi, D. Donato, A. Gionis. Diverse query recommendation via constrained clustering. Approved D. Donato, A. Gionis. Context-sensitive search - Approved B. Dumoulin, A. Gionis, D. Donato, Y. Agichtein. Systems and methods for finding high quality content in social media. Filed D. Donato, V. Murdock. Annotations of Third Party Content with Yahoo Content. Filed 2. YAHOO! SUCCESS FACTORS: Provide a rating for yourself of Strong, Neutral or Not Strong for each of the following Success Factors and provide any supporting comments in the comment box for each. Communication and Influence: Possesses the ability to be understood and have a thorough understanding of what others mean using verbal and non-verbal skills to elicit understanding and/or agreement. Respects and appreciates the needs of others and is able to win support from within and outside Yahoo! to achieve the companys objectives.Strong(I have developed the capacity of create and maintain working relations among colleagues. In the recent stay in Santa Clara, I operate in order to favour the cooperation between my group in Barcelona and the various groups which we started internal projects. Often people ask my opinion on problems) Problem Solving: Logical and creative when solving problems.Strong(Solving problems is the core of the activity of a researcher. I think to be a creative person and I am able to use this characteristic for the success of my work)Results Getting Stuff Done: Execution orientated, strong at operationalising goals and strategies, with a greater focus on effectiveness vs. efficiency, and gets stuff done in a way which is consistent with our values. Helps others understand the purpose of the goals and the call to arms.Strong(I have coordinated some internal projects. The coordination activity requires technical skills in order to evaluate the working load, capacity of mediating diverse requirements, catalysing the attention of over-busy participants. I attended training course in order to increase my knowledge of the means that the company offers to improve effectiveness and efficiency)Decision Making: Makes effective and timely decisions.Neutral(I am not directly involved in Decision Making. The problems on which concentrate are usually discussed in brainstorming sessions with my colleagues)Planning and Organising: Is organised, effectively sets and meets goals, and anticipates change.Strong(I am organizing various events and I have realized that my colleagues rely on me for everything that needs organizational skills)Living the Values (Excellence, Innovation, Customer Fixation, Teamwork, Community, Fun): Actively demonstrates the values of Yahoo!, can role model the values, and actively communicates and promotes the values to others.Strong(I am really convinced that Yahoo! Research collects an amazing number of brilliant scientists. I enjoyed my work inside the company. This extraordinary environment is a constant source of inspiration)_ (add as appropriate): _ (add as appropriate): _ (add as appropriate): 3. LEADERSHIP SUCCESS FACTORS (For People Managers Only): How do you demonstrate our leadership Success Factors? Provide a rating for yourself of Strong, Neutral or Not Strong for each of the following Success Factors and provide any supporting comments in the comment box for each.Thought Leadership: Creates and communicates a long-term vision, balances short and long-term goals, keeps own and team's work aligned with overall goals, understands the market and can predict change, understands the industry and the competition, creates and adjusts strategic plans.People Leadership: Provides feedback and coaching, rewards hard work and risk taking, takes mentoring role, challenges and develops employees, accepts mistakes, provides visibility/opportunity.Personal Leadership: Leads through change and adversity, makes difficult decisions when necessary, builds consensus when appropriate, motivates and encourages others.Results Leadership: Sets challenging and productive goals for team, keeps team accountable for actions, provides leadership and motivation, provides resources and support, uses checkpoints and data to track progress, sets up systems and processes to measure results.4. STRENGTHS: List 2-3 areas of strengths to focus on and grow.Till this moment I have been working with a “bottom-up” approach. I figure out, during brainstorming sessions with my group, a number of problems that could be of “interest” for the company and we have concentrated on them. Only in the second phase of the work we take care of the transfer modalities to other groups in Yahoo!. Currently I am trying to following a different approach for a restrict number of projects. I would like to have a more wide vision on which are the hot topics and the more urgent projects for the company in order to tailored my research activity on them. In this way, I think that it would possible to bring my contribution not only showing possible application of my work but also helping in individuate problems and hot topics for the on-going projects.