====== Web Intelligence and Social Computing Lab ====== The Web Intelligence and Social Computing (WISC) Lab focuses on the fundamental as well as applied computational techniques for collaborative and collective intelligence of group behaviors on the Internet. Our research topics include, but not limited to web intelligence, web data mining, knowledge discovery on the web, web analytics, web information retrieval, learning to rank, ranking algorithms, relevance feedback, collaborative filtering, recommender systems, human/social computation, social games, opinion mining, sentiment analysis, models and theories about social networks, large graph and link-based algorithms, social marketing, monetization of the web, security/privacy issues related to web intelligence and social computing, etc. ===== Interested Research Topics ===== - [[wisc_lab:social_networks|Social Networks]] ([[people:chao_zhou|Tom]], [[people:hongbo_deng|Hongbo]], [[people:hao_ma|Hao]]) - [[wisc_lab:recommender_system|Recommender System]] ([[people:hao_ma|Hao]]) - [[wisc_lab:opinion_mining|Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis]] ([[people:kam_tong_chan|Thomas]], [[people:wei_wei|Wei Wei]]) - [[wisc_lab:social_computing|Social/Human Computation]] ([[people:kam_tong_chan|Thomas]], [[people:hao_ma|Hao]], [[people:wei_wei|Wei Wei]]) - [[wisc_lab:security|Security]] - [[wisc_lab:graph_algorithms|Large Graph Algorithms]] ([[people:zhengjiang_lin|Allen]]) - [[wisc_lab:social_marketing|Social Marketing]] ([[people:chao_zhou|Tom]], [[people:hao_ma|Hao]]) - [[wisc_lab:machine_learning|Machine Learning Techniques]] ([[people:xin_xin|Xin Xin]], [[people:haixuan_yang|Haixuan]]) - [[wisc_lab:applications|Applications and Systems]] - Tools - Data Repository ===== Selected Publications (in recent years) ===== ==== Machine Learning/Data Mining ==== - @InProceedings{icdm2008-huangb, author = {Huang, Kaizhu King, Irwin and Lyu, Michael R.}, title = {Direct Zero-norm Optimization for Feature Selection}, booktitle = {Proceedings to the Eighth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM2008)}, pages = {}, year = {2008}, editor = {}, address = {Pisa, Italy}, month = {December 15-19,}, publisher = {}, annote = {DM613, Short paper, 144/724=20%}, url = {} } - @InProceedings{icdm2008-huanga, author = {Huang, Kaizhu and Xu, Zenglin and King, Irwin and Lyu, Michael R.}, title = {Semi-supervised Learning from General Unlabeled Data}, booktitle = {Proceedings to the Eighth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM2008)}, pages = {}, year = {2008}, editor = {}, address = {Pisa, Italy}, month = {December 15-19,}, publisher = {}, annote = {DM611, Regular paper, 70/724=9%}, url = {} } - @InProceedings{nips2008-xu, author = {Xu, Zenglin and Jin, Rong and King, Irwin and Lyu, Michael}, title = {An Extended Level Method for Efficient Multiple Kernel Learning}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing System 21 (NIPS2008)}, pages = {}, year = {2008}, editor = {}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, month = {December,}, publisher = {MIT Press}, annote = {#143, Poster 250/1022=24%}, url = {} } - @InProceedings{nips2008-yang, author = {Yang, Haixuan and King, Irwin and Lyu, Michael}, title = {Learning with Consistency between Inductive Functions and Kernels}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing System 21 (NIPS2008)}, pages = {}, year = {2008}, editor = {}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, month = {December, }, publisher = {MIT Press}, annote = {#644, Spotlight Poster 123/1022=12%}, url = {} } - @InProceedings{cikm08-ma2, author = {Ma, Hao and Yang, Haixuan and King, Irwin and Lyu, Michael R.}, title = {Learning Latent Semantic Relaions from Query Logs for Query Suggestion}, booktitle = {Proceedings to the ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2008)}, pages = {}, year = 2008, editor = {}, address = {Napa Valley, USA}, month = {October 26-30}, publisher = {ACM}, url = {http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~king/PUB/CIKM08_Ma2.pdf}, annote = {132/772 (17%) Oral} } - @InProceedings{cikm08-xu, author = {Xu, Zenglin and Jin, Rong and Huang, Kaizhu and Lyu, Michael R. and King, Irwin}, title = {Semi-supervised Text Categorization by Active Search}, booktitle = {Proceedings to the ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2008)}, pages = {}, year = 2008, editor = {}, address = {Napa Valley, USA}, month = {October 26-30}, publisher = {ACM}, url = {http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~king/PUB/CIKM08_Xu.pdf}, annote = {124/772 (16%) Poster} } - @InProceedings{wcci08-yang, author = {Yang, Haiqin and Huang, Kaizhu and King, Irwin and Lyu, Michael R.}, title = {Efficient Minimax Clustering Probability machine by Generalized Probability Product Kernel}, booktitle = {Proceedings to the World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI2008)}, pages = {}, year = 2008, editor = {}, address = {Hong Kong}, month = {June 2-6}, publisher = {IEEE}, url = {http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~king/PUB/WCCI2008-Yang.pdf}, annote = {} } - @InProceedings{nips2007-xu, author = {Xu, Zenglin and Jin, Ron and Zhu, Jianke and King, Irwin and Lyu, Michael}, title = {Efficient Convex Relaxation for Transductive Support Vector Machine}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing System 20 (NIPS2007)}, pages = {}, year = {2007}, editor = {J.C. Platt and D. Koller and Y. Singer and S. Roweis}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, month = {}, publisher = {MIT Press}, annote = {, 217/975}, url = {http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips20/NIPS2007_0534.pdf} } - @InProceedings{iconip2007-xu, author = {Xu, Zenglin and Huang, Kaizhu and Zhu, Jianke and King, Irwin and Lyu, Michael}, title = {Kernel Maximum a Posteriori Classification with Error Bound Analysis}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2007)}, pages = {841--850}, year = {2008}, editor = {Ishikawa, Masumi and Doya, Kenji}, address = {Kitakyushu, Japan}, month = {November 13-16, }, publisher = {Springer-Verlag Berlin, LNCS \# 4984}, annote = {}, url = {http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~king/PUB/iconip2007.pdf} } - @INPROCEEDINGS{ijcnn07_peng, AUTHOR = {Peng, Xiang and King, Irwin}, TITLE = {Large Scale Imbalanced Classification with Biased Minimax Probability Machine}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of 20th International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2007)}, YEAR = 2007, url = {http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~king/PUB/IJCNN2007_Peng1433.pdf}, address = {Orlando, Florida}, } - @INPROCEEDINGS{ijcnn07_zlxu, AUTHOR = {Xu, Zenglin and Zhu, Jianke and Lyu, Michael and King, Irwin}, TITLE = {Semi-supervised Spectral Kernel Learning}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of 20th International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2007)}, YEAR = 2007, url = {http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~king/PUB/IJCNN2007_Xu1124.pdf}, address = {Orlando, Florida}, } - @INPROCEEDINGS{www07_peng, AUTHOR = {Peng, Xiang and King, Irwin}, TITLE = {Efficient Training on Biased Minimax Probability Machine for Imbalanced Text Classification}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of 16th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW2007) Poster Session}, YEAR = 2007, url = {http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~king/PUB/WWW2007_Peng.pdf}, address = {Banff, Alberta, Canada}, } ==== Collaborative Filtering/Recommender Systems ==== - @InProceedings{cikm08-ma1, author = {Ma, Hao and Yang, Haixuan and Lyu, Michael R. and King, Irwin}, title = {SoRec: Social Recommendation Using Probabilistic Matrix Factorization}, booktitle = {Proceedings to the ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2008)}, pages = {}, year = 2008, editor = {}, address = {Napa Valley, USA}, month = {October 26-30}, publisher = {ACM}, url = {http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~king/PUB/CIKM08_Ma1.pdf}, annote = {132/772 (17%) Oral} } - @InProceedings{sigir07-ma, author = {Ma, Hao and King, Irwin and Lyu, Michael R.}, title = {Effective Missing Data Prediction for Collaborative Filtering}, booktitle = {Proceedings to the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR2007)}, pages = {39--46}, year = {2007}, editor = {Kando, Noriko and Clarke, Charlie and Fuhr, Norbert}, address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands}, month = {23-27 July}, publisher = {ACM}, url = {http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~king/PUB/SIGIR07_Ma.pdf}, annote = {189, 86/491} } ==== Human Computing/Social Games ==== - @InProceedings{wi2008-chen, author = {Chen, Ling Jyh and Wang, Bo-Chun and Chen, Kuan Ta and King, Irwin and Lee, Jimmy Ho-Man}, title = {An Analytical Study of Puzzle Selection Strategies for the ESP Game}, booktitle = {Proceedings to the IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-2008 (WI2008)}, pages = {}, year = {2008}, editor = {}, address = {Sydney, Australia}, month = {December, }, publisher = {}, annote = {#315, Short paper 20% of 430; Regular paper is 19% of 430; Short paper}, url = {} } - @InProceedings{wi2008-lin, author = {Lin, Chien-Wei and Chen, Kuan Ta and Chen, Ling Jyh and King, Irwin and Lee, Jimmy Ho-Man}, title = {An Analytical Approach to Optimizing The Utility of ESP Games}, booktitle = {Proceedings to the IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-2008 (WI2008)}, pages = {}, year = {2008}, editor = {}, address = {Sydney, Australia}, month = {December, }, publisher = {}, annote = {#319, Short paper 20% of 430; Regular paper is 19% of 430; Short paper}, url = {} } ==== Learning to Rank ==== - @InProceedings{wsdm2009-deng, author = {Deng, Hongbo and King, Irwin and Lyu, Michael R.}, title = {Effective Latent Space Graph-based Re-ranking Model with Global Consistency}, booktitle = {Proceedings to the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2009)}, pages = {}, year = {2009}, editor = {}, address = {Barcelona, Spain}, month = {February 9-12,}, publisher = {}, annote = {#65, Regular paper, 29/170=17%}, url = {} } - @inproceedings{sigir07-yang, author = {Yang, Haixuan and King, Irwin and Lyu, Michael R.}, title = {DiffusionRank: A Possible Penicillin for Web Spamming}, booktitle = {Proceedings to the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR2007)}, pages = {431--438}, year = {2007}, editor = {Kando, Noriko and Clarke, Charlie and Fuhr, Norbert}, address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands}, month = {23-27 July}, publisher = {ACM}, url = {http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~king/PUB/SIGIR07_Yang.pdf}, annote = {251, 86/491} } - @inproceedings{IJCNN2006-Yang, author = {Yang, Haixuan and King, Irwin and Lyu, Michael R.}, title = {Predictive random graph ranking on the Web}, booktitle = {2006 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2006)}, year = {2006}, month = {July 16-21,}, optpages = {3491--3498}, pages = {1825--1832}, address = {Vancouver, Canada}, url = {http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~king/PUB/IJCNN2006_Yang.pdf} } - @InProceedings{yang2005, author = {Yang, Haixuan and King, Irwin and Lyu, Michael R.}, title = {Predictive Ranking: A Novel Page Ranking Approach by Estimating the Web Structure}, booktitle = {Poster Proceedings of the Fourteenth International World Wide Web Conference}, Optcrossref = {www2005}, pages = {944--945}, year = 2005, editor = {Ellis, Allan and Hagino, Tatsuya}, month = {May 10-14,}, organization = {Keio University}, publisher = {ACM}, url = {http://www2005.org/cdrom/docs/p944.pdf} } ==== Web Intelligence ==== - @InProceedings{wi2007-lin, author = {Lin, Zenjiang and Lyu, Michael and King, Irwin}, title = {Extending Link-based Algorithms for Similar Web Pages with Neighborhood Structure}, booktitle = {Proceedings to the 2007 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, (WI2007)}, pages = {263--266}, year = {2007}, editor = {}, address = {San Jose, USA}, month = {2-5 November}, publisher = {}, address = {Silicon Valley, CA, USA}, ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WI.2007.54}, annote = {, xx/xxx}, url = {http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~king/PUB/WI2007_Lin.pdf} } - @InProceedings{icdar2007_wei, author = {Wei, Wei and King, Irwin and Lee, Jimmy Ho-Man}, title = {Bibliographic Attributes Extraction with Layer-upon-Layer Tagging}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2007)}, volume = {2}, pages = {804--808}, year = {2007}, editor = {}, address = {Brazil}, month = {23-26 September}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, url = {http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~king/PUB/ICDAR2007_Wei.pdf}, isbn = {978-0-7695-2822-9}, annote = {, xx/xxx} } - @INPROCEEDINGS{www07_zlxu, AUTHOR = {Xu, Zenglin and King, Irwin and Lyu, Michael R.}, TITLE = {Kernel-based Heterogeneous Web Page Classification}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of 16th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW2007) Poster Session}, YEAR = 2007, url = {http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~king/PUB/WWW2007_Xu.pdf}, address = {Banff, Alberta, Canada}, } ==== Social Networks ==== - @InProceedings{icdm2008-deng, author = {Deng, Hongbo and Lyu, Michael R. and King, Irwin}, title = {Formal Models for Expert Finding on {DBLP} Bibliography Data}, booktitle = {Proceedings to the Eighth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM2008)}, pages = {}, year = {2008}, editor = {}, address = {Pisa, Italy}, month = {December 15-19,}, publisher = {}, annote = {DM273, Regular paper, 70/724=9%}, url = {} } - @InProceedings{wi2008-wei, author = {Wei, Wei and King, Irwin and Lee, Jimmy Ho-Man}, title = {RATE: a Review of Reviewers in a Manuscript Review Process}, booktitle = {Proceedings to the IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-2008 (WI2008)}, pages = {}, year = {2008}, editor = {}, address = {Sydney, Australia}, month = {December, }, publisher = {}, annote = {#319, Short paper 20% of 430; Regular paper is 19% of 430; Short paper}, url = {} } - @InProceedings{cikm08-ma3, author = {Ma, Hao and Yang, Haixuan and Lyu, Michael R. and King, Irwin}, title = {Mining Social Networks Using Heat Diffusion Processes for Marketing Candidates Selection}, booktitle = {Proceedings to the ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2008)}, pages = {}, year = 2008, editor = {}, address = {Napa Valley, USA}, month = {October 26-30}, publisher = {ACM}, url = {http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~king/PUB/CIKM08_Ma3.pdf}, annote = {132/772 (17%) Oral} } - @INPROCEEDINGS{www07_wwei, AUTHOR = {Wei, Wei and Lee, Jimmy and King, Irwin}, TITLE = {Measuring Credibility of Users in an E-learning Environment}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of 16th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW2007) Poster Session}, YEAR = 2007, url = {http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~king/PUB/WWW2007_Wei.pdf}, address = {Banff, Alberta, Canada}, } ====== Conferences, Symposia, and Workshops ====== === Conferences === * [[http://www.mirlabs.org/cason09|International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks CASoN2009]], June 24-27, 2009, Fontainebleau, France === Symposia === * [[http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/scs2008/|Social Computing Symposium 2008]], May 8-9, 2008, Redmond, Washington, USA * [[http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/scs2007/|Social Computing Symposium 2007]] * [[http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/scs2006/|Social Computing Symposium 2006]], May 8-9, 2006, Redmond, Washington, USA * [[http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/scs2005/|Social Computing Symposium 2005]], April 24-26, 2005, Redmond, Washington, USA === Workshops === * [[http://www.public.asu.edu/~huanliu/sbp09/|Second International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction]], March 31-April 1, 2009, Phoenix, USA * [[http://workshops.socialnetworkanalysis.info/SNAKDD2008/|Second Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis]], August 24-27, 2008, Las Vegas, NV * [[http://workshops.socialnetworkanalysis.info/websnakdd2007/|Joint 9th WebKDD and 1st SNA-KDD Workshop on Web Mining and Social Network Analysis]], August 12-15, 2007, San Jose , California * [[http://ess.si.umich.edu/papers/abstract211.pdf|First International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction]], Phoenix, USA * [[http://www.socomputing.org/|Workshop on Social Computing]], June 17, 2008, Taibei, Taiwan ====== Journals, Books, other Media ====== === Journals === === Books === === Other Media === ====== People, Groups, Labs ====== === People === * [[http://www.public.asu.edu/~huanliu/|Huan Liu, ASU, US]] === Groups === * [[http://research.microsoft.com/research/china/DCCUE/|MSRA, Beijing, China]] === Labs === * [[http://reality.media.mit.edu/|MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining]] * [[http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/scl/|Social Computing Lab, HP Labs]] * [[http://hybrid.ucsc.edu/SocialComputingLab/|Social Computing Lab, University of California, Santa Cruz]] ====== Software ====== * [[http://pajek.imfm.si/doku.php|Pajek]]--Pajek (Slovene word for Spider) is a program, for Windows, for analysis and visualization of large networks. ====== See Also ====== ====== References ====== * [[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/21/it_managers_guide_to_social_computing/|IT Manager's Guide to Social Computing]] * [[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P3-1323310381.html|Research Issues in Social Computing]] * [[http://ess.si.umich.edu/papers/abstract211.pdf|A Research Infrastructure for Machine Learning in Social Networks]] * [[http://lewisshepherd.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/the-largest-social-network-ever-analyzed/|The Largest Social Network Ever Analyzed]]