Dr. Conor Hayes 
Conor Hayes
Research Fellow &
Unit Leader UIMR
National University of Ireland, Galway
Lower Dangan
Galway, Ireland
Tel.
+353 91 495110
Fax +353 91 495541
conor.hayes
deri.org
Unit Leader UIMR
National University of Ireland, Galway
Lower Dangan
Galway, Ireland
Tel.
+353 91 495110Fax +353 91 495541
conor.hayes
deri.orgUnits
Dr. Conor Hayes is member of the following unit(s):
Information Mining and Retrieval Unit (UIMR)Chapters in Books
List of chapters in books published since joining DERI Galway:
Marcel Karnstedt, Tara Hennessy, Jeffrey Chan, Conor Hayes, Thorsten Strufe
Churn in Social Networks.
In Handbook of Social Networks: Technologies and Applications
Springer Verlag, 2010.
Sheila Kinsella, Andreas Harth, Alexander Troussov, Mikhail Sogrin, John Judge, Conor Hayes, John Breslin
Navigating and Annotating Semantically-Enabled Networks of People and Associated Objects.
In Thomas Friemel (ed.), Why Context Matters: Applications of Social Network Analysis
VS Verlag, 2008.
Conor Hayes, Paolo Avesani, Uldis Bojars
An Analysis of Bloggers, Topics and Tags for a Blog Recommender System.
In Bettina Berendt, Andreas Hotho, Dunja Mladenic, Giovanni Semeraro (ed.), LNAI: Advances in Web Mining
Springer, 2007.
Conference Papers
List of conference papers published since joining DERI Galway:
Václav Belák, Marcel Karnstedt, Conor Hayes
Life-cycles and Mutual Effects of Scientific Communities.
In Proceedings of The 7th Conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis (ASNA 2010))
2010. 
Marcel Karnstedt, Tara Hennessy, Jeffrey Chan, Conor Hayes
Churn in Social Networks: A Discussion Boards Case Study.
In Proceedings of Second IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom2010), IEEE
2010.
Ioana Hulpus, Manuel Fradinho, Conor Hayes
On-the-Fly Adaptive Planning for Game-Based Learning.
In Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, Springer Verlag
2010.
Jeffrey Chan, Elizabeth Daly, Conor Hayes
Decomposing Discussion Forums and Boards using User Roles.
In 4th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, AAAI Press
2010.
Jeffrey Chan, Conor Hayes
Decomposing Discussion Forums using User Roles.
In Proceedings of the Second Web Science Conference 2010, http://www.websci10.org
2010.
Benjamin Heitmann, Conor Hayes
Using Linked Data to build open, collaborative recommender systems.
In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium ''Linked Data Meets Artificial Intelligence''
2010.
Ioana Hulpus, Manuel Fradinho, Leif Hokstad, Will Seager, Conor Hayes
Rapid Competence Development in Serious Games Using Case-Based Reasoning and Threshold Concepts.
In Proceedings of the second International Conference on Computer Supported Education, Thomson Reuters
2010.
Peyman Nasirifard, Vassilios Peristeras, Conor Hayes, Stefan Decker
Extracting and Utilizing Social Networks from Log Files of Shared Workspaces.
In Proceedings of the 10th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, Springer
2009.
Sheila Kinsella, Andreas Harth, Alexander Troussov, Mikhail Sogrin, John Judge, Conor Hayes, John Breslin
Navigating and Annotating Semantically-Enabled Networks of People and Associated Objects.
In 4th Conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis (ASNA 2007)
Zurich, Switzerland, 2007.
Conor Hayes, Paolo Avesani
Using Tags and Clustering to Identify Topic-Relevant Blogs.
In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 07): 67--75
Boulder, Colorada, U.S.A, 2007.
Posters in Proceedings
List of poster proceedings published since joining DERI Galway:
Benjamin Heitmann, Conor Hayes, Eyal Oren
Towards a reference architecture for Semantic Web applications.
In Proceedings of the 1st International Web Science Conference
Athens, Greece, 2009. 
Conor Hayes, John Breslin, James Duggan
Mining and Modelling Topic Diffusion in On-line Communities.
In Proceedings of the 19th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Springer
2008.
Workshop Papers
List of workshop papers published since joining DERI Galway:
Benjamin Heitmann, James G. Kim, Alexandre Passant, Conor Hayes, Hong-Gee Kim
An architecture for privacy-enabled user profile portability on the Web of Data.
In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems (HetRec 2010)
Workshop at 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2010), 2010.
Benjamin Heitmann, Conor Hayes
Enabling Case-Based Reasoning on the Web of Data .
In The WebCBR Workshop on Reasoning from Experiences on the Web
Workshop at International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning ICCBR, 2010.
Benjamin Heitmann, Sheila Kinsella, Conor Hayes, Stefan Decker
Implementing Semantic Web applications: reference architecture and challenges.
In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering
Workshop at International Semantic Web Conference 2009, 2009.
Marcel Karnstedt, Conor Hayes
Towards Cross-Community Effects in Scientific Communities.
In KDML 2009: Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining, and Machine Learning
Workshop at LWA 2009, 2009.
Alberto Fernandez, Conor Hayes, Nikos Loutas, Vassilios Peristeras, Axel Polleres, Konstantinos Tarabanis
Closing the Service Discovery Gap by Collaborative Tagging and Clustering Techniques.
In Proceedings of 2nd Internatioal Workshop on Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web (SMR2 2008)
Workshop at ISWC2008, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2008.
International Events
List of attended events since joining DERI Galway:
Invited Talks ESF-COST High-Level Research Conference Future Internet and Society: A Complex Systems Perspective, Invited SpeakerTara Hennessy, Conor Hayes, Jeffrey Chan
The Lifecycle of Online Communities , Hotel Villa del Mare, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy 10 2010.
Benjamin Heitmann, Conor Hayes Representing Discourse and Argumentation as an Application of Web Science , Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland 9 2009.
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