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EE 598: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH SEMINAR COURSE #14
Thu, May 02, 2013 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Charalampos Chelmis, PhD Candidate, Computer Science, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Talk Title: Computational Models of Technology Adoption at the Workplace
Series: EE598 Seminar Course
Abstract: Despite numerous studies in Online Social Networks, little is known about network dynamics and information diffusion processes at the workplace, where professional relationships are formed not because of similarity but instead due to a formal, imposed structure. In an enterprise, understanding how information flows within and between organizational levels and business units is of great importance. In this talk, we emphasize the impact of organizational hierarchy on adoption of new technologies in the enterprise. We present two intuitive, realistic agent-based computational models that capture the dynamics of adoption at both microscopic and macroscopic levels in a real-world dataset we collected from a multinational Fortune 500 company.
Biography: Charalampos Chelmis is a PhD candidate in Computer Science working with Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on modeling complex networks, their properties, hidden structures and dimensional interdependencies, mining large-scale, real-world social networks, and designing efficient, scalable algorithms by combining Graph Theory and Semantic Web Technologies, Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning, sociometric features and measures. His research has been published at top venues, including SocialCom, ASONAM, TOIS and SNAM. He received his Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 2010 and his Bachelor in Computer Engineering & Informatics from the University of Patras, Greece in 2007.
Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna
More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013) 2.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
