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1. volunteer to social work case matching: assign volunteers to social work case to maximize user satisfaction and global utility. (G1)
2. volunteer user categorization (profiling): identify user groups to apply precise content targeting and mobilization/management strategy (G2)

Solving G2 will help G1 by improving matching result given sparse and incomplete data. Ideally both tasks can be accomplished in a joint model to ensure optimality.

• personnel assignment problem
• bilateral/two-way recommendation problem
• user categorization/profiling for recommendation

• === Attendees: ===
• professor Yang Li, Yuanbo Tang, Dongdong Zhang, Yang Chen, Kaixuan Gan (16:00-17:00)
• === Discussion ===
• Kaixuan presented a report of his work in the last week.H1: Data processing and analysis, H2: Dimensionality reduction and clustering of volunteers'data
• Dongdong share new data and discuss aim of volunteer_matching program and the plan of future work

• === Future plan ===
• Improvement of dimensionality reduction methods (LDA dimensionality reduction) and clustering methods.
• Further acquisition of behavioral data.
• Hoping to better analyze, predict, and match volunteers with corresponding tasks through data integration.
• Recommendation System Related Literature Review.