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2008: Self-Assessment Employee: Debora Donato Manager: Ricardo Baeza-Yates Review Period: 1 Sept, 2007 – 31 Aug, 2008 1. 2008 BUSINESS PERFORMANCE GOALS AND RESULTS ACHIEVED: Describe your goals and results achieved and their impact on the department, customers and/or Yahoo! overall.  My goals for my second year in Yahoo! Research Barcelona have been the following: - to further broaden the knowledge of the working environment and the research facilities. - to applying the skills and the knowledge acquired in the area of Data Mining and Link Analysis to the study and the characterization of implicit and explicit user behaviour as well as in other field related to Web Retrieval - to confirm the rate of research papers published in well-known conferences with collaborators within Yahoo! as well as external collaborators obtained during the first year of my activity. - to increase my visibility in the scientific and academic community via activities such as membership in Organizing and Program Committees of well-known conferences - to increase the number of file patent applications with respect the first year - to be involved in internal projects to fill up the gap I highlighted at the end of first year of my activity at Yahoo! Research EXTERNAL IMPACT I have 4 papers published in journals, 5 papers accepted to top conferences (1 of them accepted as poster but published in the proceedings), 4 papers accepted to workshops held in conjunction with major conference and 1 paper submitted. I was also invited to contribute with a chapter on “Next Generation Search Algorithm” for the book “Next Generation Networks” edited by Springers. Moreover I was invited to contribute to the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) ( ) coordinated by the UNESCO-EOLSS Joint Committee with a chapter on “Communication Networks: WWW and social networks”? Journals D. Donato, S. Leonardi, S. Millozzi, P. Tsaparas. Mining The Inner Structure of the Web Graph. J. Phys. A: