20.01.2010DDIS and SEAL PhD student Amancio Bouza wins "Web 2.0 @ UBS" competition Collaborative Filtering As A Driver to Enable Clients to Explore, Share Experience and Build Recommendations for Products & Services

DDIS and SEAL PhD student Amancio Bouza is one of the three winners of the UBS Web 2.0 contest. His proposal "A Driver to Enable Clients to Explore, Share Experience and Build Recommendations for Products & Services" outlines how the modern algorithms exploiting the wisdom of crowds can be used to

• create adequate bundles of products and services
• allows dynamic and fast adoption of changes to a client's life situation
• provides the means for information/content sharing among clients and beteween clients and advisors
• facilitates interaction with information about products and services.