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	How to reach me	University of Amsterdam (UvA) Faculty of Information Sciences Human-Computer Studies Laboratory (HCS) Science Park 107 1098 XG Amsterdam The Netherlands Room: F 1.40 tel +31 (0)20 525 6786 fax +31 (0)20 525 6896 email V.Hollink@uva.nl
	Project	I am currently working on a project called `SiteGuide: Adaptive Generation of Workflow Models for Human-Computer Interaction'. The aim of this project is to develop methods to automatically discover overlap in content and structure between a set of web sites. People who build web sites without being experts on web design often examine a number of sites that are similar to the one they want to create. Elements that these sites have in common serve as starting points for the design of the new sites. The methods that we are developing enable users to do the comparison of the sites automatically.
	Past project	From Februari 2003 until August 2007 I was involved in a project called DUMPERS , which is short for Distributed User Modeling and Personalised Exploring Recommender systems. The main themes of the DUMPERS project were web page recommendation, modeling web usage and automatically improving link structures. For more information see the DUMPERS homepage at http://hcs.science.uva.nl/dumpers.
	Publications	2009 V. de Boer, V. Hollink and M.W. van Someren (2009). Automatic Web Site Authoring with SiteGuide. To appear in: Proceedings of Intelligent Information Systems 2009. V. Hollink, M. van Someren and V. de Boer. SiteGuide: an Example-based Approach to Web Site Development Assistance. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, Lisboa, Portugal, 2009. [pdf] V. Hollink, M. van Someren and B. J. Wielinga. A Semi-Automatic Usage-Based Method for Improving Hyperlink Descriptions in Menus. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 67, pages 366-381 , 2009 [pdf] (available via ScienceDirect) 2008 J. Mostert, V. Hollink. Effects of Goal-Oriented Search Suggestions. Proceedings of the 20th Belgian-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Boekelo, The Netherlands, 2008. [pdf] V. Hollink, M. van Someren and V. de Boer. Capturing the Needs of Amateur Web Designers by Means of Examples. Proceedings of the Annual Workshop of the SIG Adaptivity and User Modeling in Interactive Systems 2008, Würzburg, Germany, 2008. [pdf] V. Hollink. Optimizing Hierarchical Menus: A Usage-based Approach. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2008. 2007 V. Hollink, M. van Someren, S. ten Hagen, M.J.C. Hilgersom, J.M. Rövekamp. The SeniorGezond Recommender: Exploration Put into Practice. Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization, Vancouver, Canada, 2007. V. Hollink, M. van Someren. Web usage mining for the classification of link anchors. Proceedings of the sixteenth Benelearn Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2007. [pdf] V. Hollink, M. van Someren and B. Wielinga . Using log data to detect weak hyperlink descriptions. Proceedings of the UM'07 Workshop on Data Mining for User Modeling, Corfu, Greece, 2007. [pdf] V. Hollink, M. van Someren and B. Wielinga . Navigation behavior models for link structure optimization. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 17 (4), pages 339-377, 2007. [pdf] (available via Springer) V. Hollink, M. van Someren and B. Wielinga . Discovering stages in web navigation for problem-oriented navigation support. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, special issue on Statistical and Probabilistic Methods for User Modeling 17 (1-2), pages 183-214, 2007. [pdf] (available via Springer) 2006 V. Hollink and M. van Someren. Validating Navigation Time Prediction Models for Menu Optimization. Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Adaptivity and User Modeling in Interactive Systems, Hildesheim, Germany, 2006. [pdf] V. Hollink and M. van Someren. DUMPERS: Boosting the efficiency of web menus. Proceedings of the ToKeN Symposium, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2006. [pdf] V. Hollink and M. van Someren. Optimal Link Categorization for Minimal Retrieval Effort. Proceedings of 6th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop, Delft, The Netherlands, 2006. [pdf] 2005 V. Hollink, M. van Someren, S. ten Hagen and B. Wielinga. Recommending Informative Links. Proceedings of the IJCAI-05 Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization, Edinburgh, UK, 2005. [pdf] V. Hollink, M. van Someren and S. ten Hagen. Discovering Stages in Web Navigation. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on User Modeling, Edinburgh, UK, 2005, Springer-Verlag. [pdf] 2004 V. Hollink, M. van Someren and S. ten Hagen. Web Site Adaptation: Recommendation and Automatic Generation of Navigation Menus. Proceedings of the Annual Workshop of the SIG Adaptivity and User Modeling in Interactive Systems 2004, Berlin, Germany, 2004. [pdf] M. van Someren, S. ten Hagen, and V. Hollink. Greedy recommending is not always optimal. B. Berendt, A. Hotho, D. Mladenic, M. van Someren, M. Spiliopoulou, and G. Stumme (editors) Web Mining: From Web to Semantic Web, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3209, pages 148-163, Springer, 2004. V. Hollink, J. Kamps, C. Monz, and M. de Rijke. Monolingual Document Retrieval for European Languages. Information Retrieval 7(1-2), pages 33-52, 2004. [pdf] 2003 M. van Someren, S. ten Hagen, and V. Hollink. Greedy recommending is not always optimal. Proceedings of the 1st European Web Mining Forum, Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2003. [pdf] S. ten Hagen, M. van Someren, and V. Hollink. Exploration/Exploitation in Adaptive Recommender Systems. Proceedings of the European Symposium on Intelligent Technologies, Hybrid Systems and their Implementations in Smart Adaptive Systems, Oulu, Finland, 2003. [pdf] S. ten Hagen, M. van Someren, and V. Hollink. DUMPERS: Distributed User Modeling for Personalised Exploring Recommender Systems. Poster presented at the ToKeN2000 Symposium, Delft, The Netherlands, 2003. [pdf]
	Brief CV	I was born in Haarlem at the 13th of November 1980. It was in this town that I went to school and graduated in 1998. After that I studied Artificial Intelligence at the University of Amsterdam. During this time I worked as a student assistant teaching logics to undergraduates. From march 2002 until januari 2003 I worked as a scientific programmer at the LIT group of Maarten de Rijke (currently called ILPS group). After I finished my master in Februari 2003 I started my PhD at the Human-Computer Studies Laboratory (HCS), where I participated in the DUMPERS project. At 31 January 2008 I defended my PhD thesis. At this moment I am working as a postdoc at the HCS laboratory. The project I am involved in is called `SiteGuide: Adaptive Generation of Workflow Models for Human-Computer Interaction' and will run from September 2008 until March 2009.