Dear all,
I'm very pleased to announce another Digital music seminar at C4DM.
On Wednesday 27th February, Claudio Baccigalupo will be talking about
"Poolcasting - a Social Web Radio for Group Customisation".
The seminar will take place at 16:15 on Wednesday 27th February in
room 105 in the Electronic Engineering Department, Queen Mary,
University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS. Directions of how
to get to Queen Mary are available at http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/
research/seminars/ as are details of future seminars. The room is
under access control, so people from outside QM will need to contact
C4DM to get in - the lab phone number is +44 (0)20 7882 7986 and if
I'm not available, anyone else in the lab should be able to help. If
you are coming from outside Queen Mary's, please let me know, so I
can make sure no-ones stuck outside the doors...
All are welcome to attend. If you wish to be added to / removed from
the list, please send me an email and I'll be happy to do so.
If you are unable to attend, we are intending to web-stream the
seminar. Details on how to receive the stream are available at http://
www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/research/seminars/index.html as are videos of
previous seminars.
Next seminar:
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"Poolcasting - a Social Web Radio for Group Customisation"
16:15 Wednesday 27th February 2008
Claudio Baccigalupo
Ph.D student at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-
CSIC), Barcelona (Spain)
Abstract:
Poolcasting is a social Web radio architecture where the group of
listeners is able to influence in real time the music played on each
channel. Participants contribute to the radio with songs they own,
create radio channels and evaluate the proposed music, while an
automatic intelligent technique is in charge of scheduling each
channel with a group-customised smooth sequence of songs.
One issue Poolcasting has to deal with is musical: how to generate
"smooth" sequences, in which each song is musically associated with
the song it follows, as it normally occurs in terrestrial radio
programs. For this purpose, Poolcasting employs musical knowledge
coming from the analysis of playlists retrieved from the Web.
Another issue Poolcasting faces is social: how to aggregate the
preferences of different listeners and make everyone satisfied on the
long run. For this purpose, Poolcasting opts for an approach that
promotes fairness among listeners with diverging preferences.
If you'd like to present a seminar at C4DM, please get in touch, and
we'll see what we can do.
Steve Welburn
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Centre for Digital Music (C4DM)
Electronic Engineering Department
Queen Mary, University of London
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Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 7986
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C4DM Web-site : http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/index.html
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