Publications

Ph.D Thesis, Trinity College Dublin

Title: Smart Radio: Building Community Based Music Radio (2004)

Ph.D. Advisor: Professor Padraig Cunningham

Journals

Hayes, C., Cunningham, P., (2004) Context Boosting Collaborative Recommendation, Journal of Knowledge Based Systems, special issue AI2003, Volume 17, Issue 5-6, July 2004, Elsevier.

Hayes, C., Cunningham, P. (2001) SmartRadio - Community Based Music Radio ; Journal of Knowledge Based Systems, special issue ES2000, Volume 14, Issue3-4, June 2001, Elsevier

Conference and Workshop Publications

Hayes, C., Avesani, P (2007) Using Blog Tags To Identify Topic Authorities. Accepted for presentation at the 1st International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 07, Boulder Colorado, March 2007. Tech Report version available at

Hayes, C., Avesani, P., Veeramachaneni, S. (2007) An Analysis of the Use of Tags in a Blog Recommender System. Accepted for presentation at IJCAI-07, the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence to be held in Hyderabad, India in January 2007

Hayes, C., Avesani, P., Veeramachaneni, S. (2006) An Analysis of Bloggers and Topics for a Blog Recommender System in proceedings of theWorkshop on Web Mining , 7th European Conference on Machine Learning and the 10th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD), Berlin

Avesani, P., Hayes, C., Cova, M. (2005). Language Games: Solving the Vocabulary Problem in Multi-Case-Base Reasoning in proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR 05. Hector Munoz-Avila, Francisco Ricci (eds), Springer

Hayes. C., Avesani, P., Baldo, E., Cunningham, P. (2005) Re-Using Implicit Knowledge in Short-Term Information Profiles for Context-Sensitive Tasks in proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR 05. Hector Munoz-Avila, Francisco Ricci (eds), Springer

Massa. P., Hayes C. (2005) Page-reRank: using trusted links to re-rank authority in proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Compiegne, France 2005. IEEE Computer Society Press

Avesani, P., Cova, M., Hayes, C. Massa. P. (2005) Learning Contextualised Weblog Topics in proceedings of WWW 2005 2nd Annual Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem: Aggregation, Analysis and Dynamics. Eytan Adar, Natalie Glance, Mathew Hurst (eds)

Hayes, C., Avesani, P., Cova, M. (2005) Language Games : Learning shared concepts in distributed information agents in proceedings of IJCAI-2005 Workshop on Multi-Agent Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems. Aïmeur. E., Burke, R., Abdel-Illah Mouaddib (chairs)

Avesani, P., Hayes, C. (2005) Information Advertising: Learning Competence through Co-operative Game Playing. In Proceedings of the ICCBR 2005 Workshop on Computer Gaming and Simulation Environments, Chicago, USA.

Goren-Bar, D., Levi I., Hayes C., Avesani P. (2005) Tagsocratic: Learning Shared Concepts on the Blogosphere. In Proceedings of 1 st conference of Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2005: 324-327, Maybury M. T., Stock, O., Wahlster, W. (Eds.)

Hayes, C., Cunningham, P. (2003) Context Boosting Collaborative Recommendations in Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XI, proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual International Conference of the British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI), Cambridge. Springer Verlag.

Hayes, C., Cunningham, P., Clerkin, P., Grimaldi, M., (2002) Programme-driven music radio in proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), July 2002, Lyons, France

Hayes, C., Massa, P., Avesani, P., Cunningham, P. (2002) An On-line Evaluation Framework For Recommender Systems in Proceedings of the Workshop on Recommendation and Personalization in eCommerce at AH2002, University of Malaga Press, 2002. F. Ricci and B. Smyth (editors). ISBN 699-8196-7

Coyle L, Cunningham P., Hayes C., (2002) A Case-Based Personal Travel Assistant for Elaborating User Requirements and Assessing Offers in proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, Aberdeen, Scotland.

Coyle, L., Cunningham, P., Hayes, C. (2002) Representing Cases for CBR in XML. In Proceedings of the 7th UKCBR Workshop, Pterhouse, Cambridge, UK

Clerkin, P., Cunningham P., Hayes C., (2001) Ontology Discovery for the Semantic Web Using Hierarchical Clustering in proceedings of Semantic Web Mining Workshop at ECML/PKDD-2001, September 3, 2001, Freiburg, Germany.

Hayes, C., Cunningham, P., Smyth, B., (2001) A Case-Based Reasoning View of Automated Collaborative Filtering in Case-Based Reasoning Research and Developement, Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning eds D. W. Aha, I. Watson, LNAI 2080, pp234-248, Springer Verlag.

Clerkin, P., Hayes, C., Cunningham, P., (2001) Automated Case Generation Using Knowledge Discovery Techniques in proceedings of the workshop on CBR in e-commerce, Fourth International Conference on Case Based Reasoning, Vancouver BC, Canada July 2001.

Hayes, C & Cunningham, P. (2000) Smart Radio - Building Music Radio on the Fly in Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems VIII, proceedings of ES2000, The Twentieth SGES International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence. eds. Macintosh A., Moulton, M., Coenen, F. (Springer-Verlag).

Hayes, C. & Cunningham, P. (1999) Shaping a CBR View with XML in Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development, proceedings of the Third International Conference on Case Based Reasoning, Seon Germany (Springer- Verlag).

Hayes, C. (1999) Smart Radio - Building Smart Music Radio in proceedings of AICS'99, Irish Conference of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence.

Technical Reports

Michelle Doyle, Maria Angela Ferrario, Conor Hayes, Padraig Cunningham & Barry Smyth (1998) CBR Net :- Smart Technology over a Network. Trinity College Technical Report TCD-CS-1998-07. Featured on AI-CBR Hall of Fame at http://www.ai-cbr.org/hall.html (postscript)