User:Guaka

Guaka is Kasper Souren, born in the Netherlands, MSc in Mathematics, speaks fluent Dutch, English, French and German, and also some Italian and Spanish. He is researching trust metrics at IRST in Trento, together with his colleague Paolo. He is a Python enthusiast.

He is one of the founders and bureaucrats of this wiki.

He became interested in directly doing research on wikis during his unfinished PhD in Paris.

Interests
Trust (trust networks, trust metrics), reputation (reputation systems), recommender systems, hitchhiking, carpooling, hospitality exchange, free software, gift economy, reputation economy, sharing as a modality of economic production, and some more.

Tasks at FBK
Working on "the presentation of organizational knowledge: models and digital applications to support distributed systems of organization. ( "LA RAPPRESENTAZIONE DELLE CONOSCENZE ORGANIZZATIVE: MODELLI E APPLICAZIONI DIGITALI A SUPPORTO DEI SISTEMI DISTRIBUITI DI IMPRESE" )


 * 1) analyze and implement trust metrics and other algorithms
 * 2) collect and release trust network datasets (and social networks)
 * 3) evaluate algorithms on datasets
 * 4) work on visualization
 * 5) maintain and develop the Trust Metric Wiki and blog