Publications of the WUME Lab

Members of the WUME Lab publish papers on multiple topics of interest, including the web search, networking, search engine spam, and information retrieval. We have collected a listing here for easy browsing.

2008 Publications

• X. Qi and B. D. Davison. Web Page Classification: Features and Algorithms. Accepted by ACM Computing Surveys.

• J. Wang and B. D. Davison. (2008). Explorations in Tag Suggestion and Query Expansion. In Proceedings of the CIKM 2008 Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2008), pages 43-50, Napa Valley, CA, October.

• L. Nie. (2008) Mining the Hyperlinks of the Web Graph. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, September.

• X. Qi and B. D. Davison. (2008) Classifiers without Borders: Incorporating Fielded Text from Neighboring Web Pages. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 643-650, Singapore, July.

• L. Nie and B. D. Davison. (2008) Separate and Inequal: Preserving Heterogeneity in Topical Authority Flows. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 443-450, Singapore, July.

• B. D. Davison, W. Zhang, and B. Wu. (2008). Connecting P2P to the Web: Lessons from a Prototype Gnutella-WWW Gateway. In Internet Research, 18(3), In press.

• M. Najork, and B. D. Davison. (2008) Introduction to Special Section on Adversarial Issues in Web Search. In ACM Transactions on the Web, Volume 2, Number 1, February.

• B. Wu and B. D. Davison. (2008) Web Spam Identification and Blocking. Article in The McGraw-Hill 2008 Yearbook of Science and Technology, pages 370-372.

• S. K. Bhandari. (2008) Recognizing Anchor Text Patterns on the Web. Master's thesis, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.

2007 Publications

• S. K. Bhandari, B. D. Davison. (2007) Leveraging Search Engine Results for Query Classification. Technical Report LU-CSE-07-013, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.

• C. Castillo, B. D. Davison, L. Denoyer and P. Gallinari (eds). (2007) Proceedings of the Graph Labelling Workshop and Web Spam Challenge (GRAPHLAB). Held at ECML/PKDD, Warsaw, Poland, September.

• Q. Ye, L. Cheng, M. C. Chuah, and B. D. Davison. (2007) SHIM: A Scalable Hierarchical Inter-domain Multicast Approach for Disruption Tolerant Networks. In Proceedings of the International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, pages 170-175, Honolulu, August.

• L. Nie, B. D. Davison and B. Wu. (2007) From Whence Does Your Authority Come? Utilizing Community Relevance in Ranking. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), pages 1421-1426, Vancouver, Canada, July.

• L. Nie, B. Wu and B. D. Davison. (2007) Winnowing Wheat from the Chaff: Propagating Trust to Sift Spam from the Web. Poster summary in Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 869-870, Amsterdam, July.

• L. Nie, B. D. Davison and B. Wu. (2007) Ranking by Community Relevance. Poster summary in Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 873-874, Amsterdam, July.

• Y. Wang, X. Qi and B. D. Davison. (2007) Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Ranking by Combining Multiple Sources. Technical Report LU-CSE-07-011, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.

• C. Castillo, K. Chellapilla, and B. D. Davison (eds). (2007) Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb). ACM Press, May.

• L. Nie, B. Wu and B. D. Davison. (2007) A Cautious Surfer for PageRank. In Proceedings of the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), pages 1119-1120, Banff, Canada, May.

• X. Qi, L. Nie, and B. D. Davison. (2007) Measuring Similarity to Detect Qualified Links. In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb), pages 49-56, Banff, Canada, May 8. An earlier version of this paper was published as a technical report.

• B. Wu and Kumar Chellapilla. (2007) Extracting Link Spam using Biased Random Walks from Spam Seed Sets. In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb), pages 37-44, Banff, Canada, May 8.

• B. Wu. (2007) Finding and Fighting Search Engine Spam. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, March.

• L. Nie, B. Wu and B. D. Davison. (2007) Incorporating Trust into Web Search. Technical Report LU-CSE-07-002, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.

2006 Publications

• B. D. Davison, M. Najork, and T. Converse. (2006) SIGIR Workshop Report: Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb 2006). In SIGIR Forum, Volume 40, Number 2, pages 27-30, December.

• X. Qi and B. D. Davison. (2006) Knowing a Web Page by the Company It Keeps. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Arlington, VA, November 6-11. An earlier version of this paper was published as a technical report.

• L. Nie, B. D. Davison and X. Qi. (2006) Topical Link Analysis for Web Search. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, pages 91-98, Seattle, WA, August.

• B. D. Davison, M. Najork, and T. Converse (eds). (2006) Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web. Technical Report LU-CSE-06-027, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.

• B. Wu, V. Goel, and B. D. Davison. (2006) Propagating Trust and Distrust to Demote Web Spam. In Proceedings of Models of Trust for the Web (MTW), a workshop at the 15th International World Wide Web Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, May.

• B. Wu and B. D. Davison. (2006) Detecting Semantic Cloaking on the Web. In Proceedings of the 15th International World Wide Web Conference, pages 819-828, Edinburgh, Scotland, May.

• B. Wu, V. Goel, and B. D. Davison. (2006) Topical TrustRank: Using Topicality to Combat Web Spam. In Proceedings of the 15th International World Wide Web Conference, pages 63-72, Edinburgh, Scotland, May.

• Q. Ye, L. Cheng, M. C. Chuah, and B. D. Davison. (2006) OS-multicast: On-demand Situation-aware Multicasting in Disruption Tolerant Networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE 63rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Melbourne, Australia, May.

• M. C. Chuah, P. Yang, B. D. Davison, and L. Cheng. (2006) Store-and-Forward Performance in a Disruption Tolerant Network. In Proceedings of the IEEE 63rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Melbourne, Australia, May.

• B. Wu and B. D. Davison. (2006) Undue Influence: Eliminating the Impact of Link Plagiarism on Web Search Rankings. In Proceedings of The 21st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (Information Access and Retrieval track), Dijon, France, April. A slightly longer (and corrected) version is available as Technical Report LU-CSE-06-007.

• M. C. Chuah, V. Goel, and B. D. Davison. (2006) Performance evaluation of mobility management scheme in DTN. In Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Las Vegas, NV, April.

• B. D. Davison. (2006) World wide web search engines. Article in McGraw-Hill 2006 Yearbook of Science and Technology, pages 347-349.

2005 Publications

• M. C. Chuah, L. Cheng, and B. D. Davison. (2005) Enhanced Disruption and Fault Tolerant Network Architecture for Bundle Delivery (EDIFY). In Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Volume 2, pp. 807-812, St. Louis, November.

• S. Mao, L. Nie, and G. Thoma. (2005) Unsupervised Style Classification of Document Page Images. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Vol. II, pp. 510-513, Genova, Italy, September.

• B. D. Davison, W. Zhang, and B. Wu. (2005) Connecting P2P to the Web: A Gnutella-WWW Gateway. Technical Report LU-CSE-05-016, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.

• B. D. Davison and W. Zhang. (2005) Searching the Web and more --- a juxtaposition of online search traces. Technical Report LU-CSE-05-005, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.

• B. Wu and B. D. Davison. (2005) Identifying Link Farm Spam Pages. In Proceedings of the 14th International World Wide Web Conference (Industrial and Practical Experience Track), Chiba, Japan, May.

• B. D. Davison (ed). (2005) Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web. Technical Report LU-CSE-05-030, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.

• B. Wu and B. D. Davison. (2005) Cloaking and Redirection: A Preliminary Study. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb), held at WWW 2005, Chiba, Japan, May.

• A. Kontostathis, W. M. Pottenger, and B. D. Davison. (2005) Identification of Critical Values in Latent Semantic Indexing. In T. Y. Lin, S. Ohsuga, C.-J. Liau, X. T. Hu, and S. Tsumoto (eds.) Foundations of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Springer-Verlag.

• B. D. Davison. (2005) Search engine, pages 268-269. Article in The World Book Encyclopedia.

2004 Publications

• B. D. Davison and B. Wu. (2004) Implementing a Web Proxy Evaluation Architecture. In Proceedings of 30th International Conference for the Resource Management and Performance Evaluation of Enterprise Computing Systems (CMG2004), Las Vegas, December 2004. Best paper award.

• B. D. Davison. (2004) The potential of the metasearch engine. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Volume 41, pp. 393-402, Providence, RI, November 2004.

• A. Kontostathis, W. M. Pottenger, and B. D. Davison. (2004) Assessing the Impact of Sparsification on LSI Performance. In the The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Chicago, October 2004.

• F. Douglis and B. D. Davison (eds). (2004) Web Content Caching and Distribution: Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop. Kluwer, June 2004.

• B. D. Davison, W. Zhang, and B. Wu. (2004) Lessons from a Gnutella-Web Gateway. Presented at the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference, New York City, May.

• B. D. Davison. (2004) Learning Web Request Patterns. In A. Poulovassilis and M. Levene (eds), Web Dynamics: Adapting to Change in Content, Size, Topology and Use, Springer, pp. 435-460.

• D. G. Deschenes, S. D. Weber, and B. D. Davison. (2004) Crawling Gnutella: Lessons Learned. Technical Report LU-CSE-04-005, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.

2003 Publications

• W. Ma, B. Wu, W. Zhang, and L. Cheng. (2003) Implementation of a lightweight service advertisement and discovery protocol for mobile ad hoc networks. Proceedings of IEEE Globecom, San Francisco, CA, December, pp. 1023-1027.

• W. Zhang, D. B. Lewanda, C. D. Janneck, and B. D. Davison. (2003) Personalized Web Prefetching in Mozilla. Technical Report LU-CSE-03-006, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.

• Q. Wang and B. D. Davison. (2003) Review: Web Caching and Replication. SIGMOD Record, Volume 32, Number 4, December, pages 107-108.

• B. D. Davison. (2003) Unifying Text and Link Analysis. In the IJCAI-03 Workshop on Text-Mining & Link-Analysis (TextLink), Acapulco, August.

• B. D. Davison. (2003) Toward a Unification of Text and Link Analysis. Poster abstract in the Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 367-368, Toronto, July 28-August 1.

• B. D. Davison, D. G. Deschenes, and D. B. Lewanda. (2003) Finding Relevant Website Queries. Presented at the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference, Budapest, Hungary, May.

2002 Publications

• B. D. Davison, C. Krishnan, and B. Wu. (2002) When does a hit = a miss? In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution (WCW-2002) , Boulder, CO, August, pages 91-102.

• B. D. Davison. (2002) Predicting Web Actions from HTML Content. In Proceedings of the The Thirteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT-02), College Park, MD, June, pages 159-168.

• B. D. Davison, K. Komaravolu, and B. Wu. (2002) A Split Stack Approach to Mobility-Providing Performance-Enhancing Proxies. Technical Report LU-CSE-02-012, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.

• L. Grevnin and B. D. Davison. (2002) HTTPflow: An Introduction. Technical Report LU-CSE-02-003, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.

• T. J. McLaughlin. (2002) The Benefits and Drawbacks of HTTP Compression. Technical Report LU-CSE-02-002, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.

• B. D. Davison. (2002) The Design and Evaluation of Web Prefetching and Caching Techniques Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. October 2002.

2001 Publications

• B. D. Davison. (2001) A Web Caching Primer. In IEEE Internet Computing, Volume 5, Number 4, July/August, pages 38-45.

• B. D. Davison. (2001) Assertion: Prefetching With GET Is Not Good. In A. Bestavros and M. Rabinovich (eds), Web Caching and Content Delivery: Proceedings of the Sixth International Web Content Caching and Content Distribution Workshop (WCW'01), Boston, June, 2001, pages 203-215, Elsevier.

• B. D. Davison. (2001) HTTP Simulator Validation Using Real Measurements: A Case Study. In the Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation on Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'01), Cincinatti OH, August.

• B. D. Davison. (2001) NCS: Network and Cache Simulator -- An Introduction. Technical Report DCS-TR-444, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University.

• B. D. Davison and C. Krishnan. (2001) ROPE: The Rutgers Online Proxy Evaluator. Technical Report DCS-TR-445, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University.

2000 Publications

• B. D. Davison. (2000) Topical Locality in the Web. In the Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2000), Athens, Greece, July, pages 272-279. Longer version is available as Technical Report DCS-TR-414, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University.

• B. D. Davison. (2000) Recognizing Nepotistic Links on the Web. Presented at the AAAI-2000 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Web Search, Austin, TX, July, and published in Artificial Intelligence for Web Search, Technical Report WS-00-01, pp. 23-28, AAAI Press.

• B. D. Davison and V. Liberatore. (2000) Pushing Politely: Improving Web Responsiveness One Packet at a Time. In Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 28, Number 2, September 2000, pages 43-49. Presented at the Performance and Architecture of Web Servers (PAWS) Workshop, held in conjunction with ACM SIGMETRICS 2000: International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Santa Clara, CA, June. Longer version available as Technical Report DCS-TR-415, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University.

• B. D. Davison. (2000) Is Your Web Site Cache Friendly? Invited article in the March issue of Web Techniques, Volume 5, Issue 3, pp. 101-103.

1999 Publications

• B. D. Davison. (1999) Web Traffic Logs: An Imperfect Resource for Evaluation. Published in the Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the Internet Society (INET'99), San Jose, June.

• B. D. Davison, A. Gerasoulis, K. Kleisouris, Y. Lu, H. Seo, W. Wang, and B. Wu. (1999) DiscoWeb: Applying Link Analysis to Web Search. In Poster Proceedings of Eighth International World Wide Web Conference, Toronto, pages 148-149, May.

• B. D. Davison (1999) Adaptive Web Prefetching. Position paper in Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Adaptive Systems and User Modeling on the WWW, a part of the Eighth International World Wide Web Conference, Toronto, May.

• B. D. Davison (1999) Simultaneous Proxy Evaluation. In the Proceedings of the Fourth International Web Caching Workshop (WCW99), pages 170-178, San Diego, March 31-April 2.

• B. D. Davison (1999) A Survey of Proxy Cache Evaluation Techniques. In the Proceedings of the Fourth International Web Caching Workshop (WCW99), pages 67-77, San Diego, March 31-April 2.

• V. Liberatore and B. D. Davison. (1999) Data Dissemination on the Web: Speculative and Unobtrusive. Technical Report 99-23, UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

• B. D. Davison (1998/1999) Measuring the Performance of Prefetching Proxy Caches. Poster presented at the ACM International Student Research Competition, March 1999. Awarded Third Place, Graduate Category. Poster presented at the AT&T Student Research Symposium (a regional ACM Student Research Competition), November 1998. Awarded First Place, PhD Division.

1998 Publications

• S. A. Macskassy, A. Banerjee, B. D. Davison, and H. Hirsh (1998) Human Performance on Clustering Web Pages: A Preliminary Study. In Proceedings of The Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-98), August 27-31, pp. 264-268, New York City: AAAI Press. Longer version available as Technical Report DCS-TR-355, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University.