CS886 - Spring 2024 - Section 1

Trust Modeling, Explainability and Online Social Networks

Prof. Robin Cohen
rcohen AT uwaterloo DOT ca

Page under construction

Site under construction; descriptions are tentative and will be finalized May 7, 2024

Additional notes regarding enrolment and attendance are on my personal webpage.

An overview of the course and its schedule is here.

It describes the purpose of the course, lists the required tasks
for the Workload and presents the Schedule of classes for the term.

A description of the Group Project is here.

A description of the Individual Project is here.

A list of the Papers available for presentation is here.

Students enrolled in the course will be able to select preferred papers starting just after the May 10 class; details will be provided that day
Assignment of papers to students 1st Half will be announced by May 17
Second-half papers can be selected starting just after the May 31 class; assignment of papers revealed Jun 7

The timetable showing who is presenting what paper will not be revealed until we have sorted first-half talks, after May 17,
but this will be shown here.

In this course, students are not allowed to use ChatGPT when completing their individual projects and their one-page paper summaries.
I will ask that each item a student hands in for grading have the line: I confirm that ChatGPT was not used in the completion of this task for CS886.
See uWaterloo's Policy 71 for more general information about plagiarism and cheating and the possible consequences of committing these offenses.

** New as of May 10: an FAQ page including some answers given first class is here.
** New as of June 24: a page showing the schedulefor project presentations is here.
** New as of July 12: the page with schedule for project presentations has been updated and is here.
** New as of July 5: the FAQ page has a new entry clarifying intended learning outcomes.