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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Colleague,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='color:red'>REMINDER</span></b><b> - </b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%'>AAi Public Short Course</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%'> – <b>‘Recommendation Systems – an Introduction’</b> –  <b>Thursday 3 April 2014</b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://shortcourses-bookings.uts.edu.au/Clientview/Schedules/ScheduleDetail.aspx?ScheduleID=1588&EventID=1325">https://shortcourses-bookings.uts.edu.au/Clientview/Schedules/ScheduleDetail.aspx?ScheduleID=1588&EventID=1325</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt'><span style='background:white'>AA’s <span style='color:#222222'>short course  ‘Recommendation Systems - an Introduction’ may be of interest to you or others in your organisation or network.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#222222'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#101010;background:#FAFAFA'>Have you ever been amazed that the products an online retailer suggested to you are just what you want to buy? Do you know what tricks are played in the background to enable such intelligent recommendations? These intelligent recommendations are </span><span style='background:#FAFAFA'>due<span style='color:#101010'> to the recommender system</span></span><span style='color:#222222;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5;background:#FAFAFA'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#101010'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#101010;background:white'>Nowadays, the mainstream technology for personalized recommendation is collaborative filtering (CF). Collaborative filtering is a computational approach, which predicts a user’s preference of an item by finding like-minded users based on their historical records<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#222222'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#222222;background:white'>To introduce this rising technology to a broad audience from academics and industries, we propose a one-day short course, including four sessions: 1) Overview, 2) Techniques, 3) Challenges, and 4) Case studies and lab exercises. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:#FAFAFA'><b><span style='color:#101010'>This program is particularly useful for</span></b><b>:<span style='color:#101010'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:#FAFAFA'><span style='color:#101010'>All those involved in BIG DATA for their organisation:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=square><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#101010;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:#FAFAFA'>Students<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#101010;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:#FAFAFA'>Researchers<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#101010;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:#FAFAFA'>Academics<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#101010;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:#FAFAFA'>Industry Practitioners<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='color:#101010;background:#FAFAFA'>Program topics</span></b><b><span style='background:#FAFAFA'>:<span style='color:#101010'><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><ul type=square><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#101010;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:#FAFAFA'>9:00 am – 10:15am: RS Overview – Dr Guandong Xu<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#101010;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:#F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