Modeling Group Interactions via Open Data Sources

Description

This project addresses an emerging challenge of developing a computational understanding of online groups and their interactions. By investigating the interactions between the groups and the social, economical, and physical forces acting on them, this project endeavors to achieve a better understanding of the operational environment by extracting pertinent values from groups of special interests. Online data sources contain massive amounts of data. The state-of-art search engines are designed to help general query-specific search and not suitable for finding disconnected online groups. The scientific and technical merits of the proposed research are demonstrated in (1) formulating novel research problems of searching disconnected online groups, (2) developing innovative mathematical and statistical models and efficient algorithms that leverage existing search engines and employ contextual information and meta data, and (3) conducting interdisciplinary scientific research that enables a new kind of search power and complementary research capabilities.

The project will develop new research capabilities and broaden the research base in online group search, can also contribute in improving business intelligence, advancing scientific collaboration, and expediting the development of a new generation of search tools. The project will also nurture graduate students, help renovate and develop CSE courses, and promote interdisciplinary research activities via annual workshops.

Publications

• Dissertations
• Sai Moturu. Ph.D. dissertation on "Quantifying the Trustworthiness of User-Generated Social Media Content". School of Computing and Informatics, Arizona State University, Summer 2009.
• Nitin Agarwal. Ph.D. dissertation on "Social Computing in Blogosphere". School of Computing and Informatics, Arizona State University, Summer 2009.
• Journal Articles
• Nitin Agarwal, Magdiel Galan, Huan Liu, and Shankar Subramanya. "WisColl: Collective Wisdom based Blog Clustering". Journal of Information Science (forthcoming).
• Nitin Agarwal and Huan Liu. "Blogosphere: Research Issues, Tools, and Applications". SIGKDD Explorations, 10(1): pp. 18-31, July 2008.
• L. Tang, H. Liu, J. Zhang, N. Agarwal and J.J. Salerno. "Topic Taxonomy Adaptation for Group Profiling", ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data. TKDD 1(4): (2008)
• Conferences
  
• Lei Tang, Xufei Wang and Huan Liu, "Uncovering Groups via Heterogeneous Interaction Analysis",  IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'09), Dec. 6-9, 2009. Miami, USA.
• Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, Shankar Subramanya, John Salerno and Philip S. Yu, "Connecting Sparsely Distributed Similar Bloggers",  IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'09), Dec. 6-9, 2009. Miami, USA.
• Lei Tang and Huan Liu, "Scalable Learning of Collective Behavior based on Sparse Social Dimensions",  18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'09), 2009. Hongkong, China.
• Lei Tang and Huan Liu, "Relational Learning via Latent Social Dimensions", 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'09), 2009. Paris,  France.
• Sai Moturu, Jian Yang, Huan Liu. "Quantifying Utility and Trustworthiness for Advice Shared on Online Social Media", Symposium on Social Intelligence and Networking, IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom'09),, Aug 29-31, 2009. Vancouver, Canada.
• Sai Moturu, Huan Liu. "Evaluating the Trustworthiness of Wikipedia Articles through Quality and Credibility" (Poster), 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym 2009),, Oct 25-27, 2009. Orlando, Florida.
• N. Agarwal, H. Liu, J. Salerno, and S. Sundararajan. "Understanding Group Interaction in Blogosphere: A Case Study", Second International Conference on Computational Cultural Dynamics (ICCCD08), September 15-16, 2008.University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
• L. Tang, H. Liu, J. Zhang, and Z. Nazeri. "Community Evolution in Dynamic Multi-Mode Networks", the 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD'08).
• N. Agarwal, H. Liu, J. Salerno, and Philip S. Yu. "Searching for 'Familiar Strangers' on Blogosphere: Problems and Challenges", NSF Symposium on Next-Generation Data Mining and Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation(NGDM'07). October 10-12, 2007, Baltimore, MD.
• S. Subramanya, B. Li, and H. Liu. "Robust Integration of Multiple Information Sources by View Completion", IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration 2008 (IEEE IRI), pp 398-403, July 13 -15, 2008. Las Vegas, Nevada
• N. Agarwal, M. Galan, H. Liu, S. Subramanya. "Clustering Blogs with Collective Wisdom", 8th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE08), July 14-18, 2008. Yorktown Heights, NY.
• S. T. Moturu, H. Liu, and W. Johnson. "Trust Evaluation in Health Information on the World Wide Web", IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC '08), August 20 - 24, 2008. Vancouver, Canada.
• Books or Chapters
• Lei Tang and Huan Liu, "Understanding Group Structures and Properties in Social Media", in Link Mining, Models, Algorithms and Applications, forthcoming.
• Lei Tang and Huan Liu, "Graph Mining Applications to Social Network Analysis", in Managing and Mining Graph Data, forthcoming.
• Nitin Agarwal and Huan Liu."Modeling and Data Mining in Blogosphere". Synthesis Lectures on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery No. 1, Morgan and Claypool Publishers, Robert Grossman (Editor), August 2009. Morgan and Claypool webiste; Amazon website.
• Nitin Agarwal and Huan Liu. "Trust in Blogosphere", in Encyclopedia of Database Systems, forthcoming.
• Huan Liu, John J. Salerno, and Michael J. Young, editors, "Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction", 2008, Springer.
• Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, and Jianping Zhang. "A Study of Friendship Networks and Blogosphere", Handbook of Research on Text and Web Mining, Technologies. Editors: Min Song and Yi-fang Brook Wu. Idea Group Inc.
• Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, John J. Salerno, and Philip S. Yu. "Searching for 'Familiar Strangers' on Blogosphere", Next Generation of Data Mining, Editors: Hillol Kargupta, Jiawei Han, Philip S. Yu, Rajeev Motwani, and Vipin Kumar. Chapman & Hall/CRC Press.
• Technical Reports and Workshop Papers
  
• Lei Tang and Huan Liu, "Uncovering Cross-Dimension Group Structures in Multi-Dimensional Networks", SDM'09 Workshop on Analysis of Dynamic Networks, April, 2009.
  
• Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, John J. Salerno, Shankara Subramanya, and Philip S. Yu. "Familiar Strangers: Connecting Dots on Blogosphere", Technical Report, TR-08-005, School of Computing Informatics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, 2008.
• Nitin Agarwal, Magdiel Galan, Huan Liu, Shankara Subramanya. "Clustering with Collective Wisdom - A Comparative Study", Technical Report, TR-08-004, School of Computing Informatics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, 2008.

Related Activities

• SocialCom'09 Tutorial on Social Computing: Community Detection and Behavior Study for Social Computing
• KDD'08 Tutorial on Blogosphere: Research, Tools, and Applications
• Call for Papers, Second International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction (SBP09), Phoenix, Arizona. March 31 - April 1, 2009.
• Call for Papers, ACM TKDD Special Issue on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction, Submission due on September 10, 2008.
• CSE 494/598 : Social Computing and Web Analytics
• A Special Issue of IEEE Internet Computing on "Social Computing in Blogosphere" scheduled to appear in 2010.

Project Members

• Huan Liu
• Nitin Agarwal
• Lei Tang
• Sai Moturu
• Shankara Subramanya (Graduated)
• Xufei Wang

Acknowledgments

Created on September 2, 2008.
Contact: Huan Liu via Email: huan.liu@asu.edu.
Point of Contact: Dr. John Salerno
AFOSR Program Manager: Dr. Terrence Lyons

Last Upadted: Friday, August 21th, 2009