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  • Temporal Analysis of Session Clusters in Clickstream Data from a Price Comparison Platform

    Author: Luca Turin Supervisor: Julia Neidhardt, Co-Supervisor: Ahmadou Wagne Abstract Understanding user behaviour is essential for designing digital services, improving user experience, and optimising commercial outcomes. This thesis investigates how behaviour varies over time and across contexts on a major price comparison platform. Building on prior work that offered a static segmentation of sessions, it

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  • New Job Opening as Software & DevOps Engineer

    We are seeking a Software & DevOps Engineer (20h/week) to join our team. In this role, you’ll support the development of an LLM-based conversational system that integrates diverse data sources and tools to enable natural language interaction. You’ll collaborate closely with researchers and industry partners on real-world applications, contributing to data integration, system implementation, and

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  • Invited Talk by Michael Ekstrand

    Title: Where are the People? Political, Ethical, and Humanist Foundations for Information AccessDate: Thursday, September 18th, 2025 18:00Location:  FAV 1 Helmut Veith, Favoritenstraße 9-11, 1040 Vienna Abstract: Modern information access technologies have broadened both access to information and the ability to disseminate new information. In this talk, he takes up the question of why we develop and deploy

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