On the Predictability of Talk Attendance at Academic Conferences
Proceedings of the 25th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Seite 279--284. Santiago, Chile, ACM, (September 2014)Zusammenfassung
This paper focuses on the prediction of real-world talk attendances at academic conferences with respect to different influence factors. We study and discuss the predictability of talk attendances using real-world face-to-face contact data and user interests extracted from the users' previous publications. For our experiments, we apply RFID-tracked talk attendance information captured at the ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 2011. We find that contact and similarity networks achieve comparable results, and that combining these networks helps to a limited extent to improve the prediction quality.
