Publications by Brian D. Davison

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Patents, books, proceedings, and book chapters

• G. M. Weiss and B. D. Davison. (2009) Data Mining. In H. Bidgoli (ed.), Handbook of Technology Management, John Wiley and Sons, expected 2010.

• S. L. Goldman, R. N. Nagel, B. D. Davison, and P. D. Schmid. (2009) Next Generation Agility: Smart Business and Smart Communities. In P.H.M. Vervest, D.W. van Liere, and L. Zheng (eds.), The Network Experience: New Value from Smart Business Networks, Chapter 4, pp. 49-55. Springer-Verlag.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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. 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.

• 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.

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

• B. D. Davison. (2004) Learning Web Request Patterns. In M. Levene and A. Poulovassilis (eds), Web Dynamics: Adapting to Change in Content, Size, Topology and Use, Springer, pages 435-459.

• L. Steinberg, J. S. Hall, and B. D. Davison. (2002) Method of producing optimized designs using computer systems and designs produced therefrom. United States Patent 6,367,052. Issued 2 April 2002.

Peer reviewed journal, conference, and workshop papers

• L. Nie, B. D. Davison, and B. Wu. Incorporating Trust into Web Authority. Accepted (pending minor revisions) by Journal of Intelligent Information Systems.

• B. Wu and B. D. Davison. Detecting link farms on the Web. Accepted (pending minor revisions) by ACM Transactions on the Web.

• Q. Ye, L. Cheng, M. C. Chuah, and B. D. Davison. (2009). Performance Comparison of Different Multicast Routing Strategies in Disruption Tolerant Networks. Computer Communications, in press.

• L. Hong and B. D. Davison. (2009). A Classification-based Approach to Question Answering in Discussion Boards. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Boston, July.

• J. Wang and B. D. Davison. (2009). Counting Ancestors to Estimate Authority. Poster summary in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Boston, July.

• N. Dai, B. D. Davison and X. Qi. (2009) Looking into the Past to Better Classify Web Spam. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb), pages 1-8, Madrid, Spain, ACM Press, April.

• D. Yin, Z. Xue, L. Hong, B. D. Davison, A. Kontostathis, and L. Edwards. (2009) Detection of Harassment on Web 2.0. In Proceedings of the Content Analysis in the WEB 2.0 (CAW2.0) Workshop at WWW2009, Madrid, Spain, April.

• X. Qi and B. D. Davison. (2009) Web Page Classification: Features and Algorithms. ACM Computing Surveys, 41(2), February.

• 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.

• 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. Internet Research, 18(3):336-356. 2009 Highly Commended award winner.

• 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), 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.

• L. Nie, B. Wu and B. D. Davison. (2007) A Cautious Surfer for PageRank. Poster summary 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.

• 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), pages 228-237, Arlington, VA, November.

• 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 on Information Retrieval, pages 91-98, Seattle, WA, August.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 2006-Spring), Volume 1, pages 96-100, 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 2006-Spring), Volume 1, pages 187-191, 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, pages 1099-1104, Dijon, France, April.

• 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), pages 539-544, Las Vegas, NV, April.

• 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, pages 807-812, St. Louis, November.

• B. Wu and B. D. Davison. (2005) Identifying Link Farm Spam Pages. In Proceedings of the 14th International World Wide Web Conference, pages 820-829, ACM Press, Chiba, Japan, May.

• 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.

• R. Feldman, B. Rosenfeld, M. Fresko, and B. D. Davison. (2005) Hybrid Semantic Tagging for Information Extraction. In Special interest tracks and posters of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web, pages 1022-1023, ACM Press, Chiba, Japan, May.

• 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), pages 703-714, Las Vegas, December. 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, Vol. 41, pages 393-402, Providence, RI, November.

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

• B. D. Davison, W. Zhang, and B. Wu. (2004) Lessons from a Gnutella-Web Gateway. In the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference Alternate Track Papers and Posters, pages 502-503, ACM Press, New York City, May.

• 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 Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, pages 367-368, Toronto, July.

• 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.

• 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) , pages 91-102, Boulder, CO, August.

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

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

• 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), pages 203-215, Boston, June, Elsevier.

• B. D. Davison. (2001) HTTP Simulator Validation Using Real Measurements: A Case Study. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation on Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'01), pages 389-396, Cincinnatti OH, August.

• H. Hirsh, C. Basu, and B. D. Davison. (2000) Learning to Personalize. Communications of the ACM, Volume 43, Issue 8, pages 102-106, August.

• B. D. Davison. (2000) Topical Locality in the Web. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 272-279, Athens, Greece, July.

• 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 30, and published in Artificial Intelligence for Web Search, Technical Report WS-00-01, pages 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, pages 43-49, September. 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.

• B. D. Davison and K. Rasheed. (1999) Effect of Global Parallelism on a Steady State GA. Extended abstract published in Proceedings of the Evolutionary Computing and Parallel Processing Workshop at GECCO-99, pages 167-170, Orlando, FL, July.

• K. Rasheed and B. D. Davison. (1999) Effect of Global Parallelism on the Behavior of a Steady State Genetic Algorithm for Design Optimization. Published in Proceedings of the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC99), Volume 1, pages 534-541, Washington, DC, July.

• B. D. Davison. (1999) Web Traffic Logs: An Imperfect Resource for Evaluation. Published in Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the Internet Society (INET'99), San Jose, June 22-25.

• B. D. Davison, A. Gerasoulis, K. Kleisouris, Y. Lu, H. Seo, W. Wang, and B. Wu. (1999) DiscoWeb: Applying Link Analysis to Web Search. Poster presented at the Eighth International World Wide Web Conference, Toronto, May. Extended abstract included on pages 148-149 of the poster proceedings.

• 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 Proceedings of Fourth International Web Caching Workshop (WCW99), pages 170-178, San Diego, March.

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

• J. S. Hall, L. Steinberg, and B. D. Davison (1998) Combining Agoric and Genetic Methods in Stochastic Design. In Nanotechnology, Vol. 9, No. 3 (September), pages 274-284. (Presented at The Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology, November 1997, Palo Alto, CA.)

• 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), pages 264-268, New York City: AAAI Press, August.

• L. Steinberg, J. S. Hall, and B. D. Davison (1998) Highest Utility First Search Across Multiple Levels of Stochastic Design. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pages 477-484, Madison, WI: AAAI Press, July. A version of this paper was also presented at the Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation (SARA-98), Pacific Grove, CA, May.

• B. D. Davison and H. Hirsh. (1998) Predicting Sequences of User Actions. Presented at the AAAI-98/ICML'98 Workshop on Predicting the Future: AI Approaches to Time Series Analysis, Madison, WI, July 27, 1998, and published in Predicting the Future: AI Approaches to Time Series Problems, Technical Report WS-98-07, pages 5-12, AAAI Press.

• B. D. Davison. (1998) Classification Using an Online Genetic Algorithm. Student Abstract in Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), page 1189, Madison, WI: AAAI Press, July.

• B. D. Davison and H. Hirsh. (1998) Probabilistic Online Action Prediction. Presented at the AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Environments, March 23-25, 1998, Stanford University, California, and published in Intelligent Environments: Papers from the AAAI 1998 Spring Symposium, Technical Report SS-98-02, pages 148-154: AAAI Press.

• B. D. Davison and H. Hirsh. (1997) Toward An Adaptive Command Line Interface. Presented at the Seventh International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, August 24-29, 1997, San Francisco, CA. Proceedings published as Advances in Human Factors/Ergonomics Volume 21B - Design of Computing Systems: Social and Ergonomic Considerations, pages 505-508: Elsevier Science Publishers.

• B. D. Davison and H. Hirsh. (1997) Experiments in UNIX Command Prediction. Student Abstract in Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, page 827, Providence, RI: AAAI Press.

• J. S. Hall, L. Steinberg, and B. D. Davison (1997) Rational Control of Multi-level Stochastic Design. Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Modelling and Simulation. Pittsburgh, PA.

• H. Hirsh and B. D. Davison. (1997) An Adaptive UNIX Command-Line Assistant. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pages 542-543. Marina del Ray, CA: ACM.

Other publications

• B. D. Davison, M. Lalmas, and D. D. Lewis. (2008) ACM SIGIR Annual Business Meeting 2008: Secretary's Notes. In SIGIR Forum, Volume 42, Number 2, pages 3-8, December.

• C. Castillo, K. Chellapilla, and B. D. Davison. (2008) Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb 2007). In SIGIR Forum, Volume 42, Number 1, pages 68-72, June.

• Q. Ye, L. Cheng, M. C. Chuah, and B. D. Davison. (2008) Performance Comparison of Different Multicast Routing Strategies in Disruption Tolerant Networks. Technical Report LU-CSE-08-009, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.

• 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, 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• M. C. Chuah, P. Yang, B. D. Davison, and L. Cheng. (2006) Performance Comparison of Unicast Routing Schemes in DTNs. Technical Report LU-CSE-06-024, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.

• Q. Ye, L. Cheng, M. C. Chuah, and B. D. Davison. (2006) Performance Comparison of Multicasting Approaches in Disruption Tolerant Networks. Technical Report LU-CSE-06-020, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.

• B. Wu and B. D. Davison. (2006) Undue Influence: Eliminating the Impact of Link Plagiarism on Web Search Rankings. Technical Report LU-CSE-06-007, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.

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

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

• H. S. Baird, D. Lopresti, B. D. Davison, and W. M. Pottenger. (2004) Robust Document Image Understanding Technologies. In Proceedings of the CIKM Hardcopy Document Processing Workshop, pages 9-14, Washington, DC, November 2004.

• 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.

• B. D. Davison, W. Zhang, and J. Miller. (2003/2004) A non-functional prototype at TREC 2003. Proceedings of the Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2003), pages 383-385, November 18-21, 2003, Gaithersburg, MD: NIST.

• 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, 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• B. D. Davison and V. Liberatore. (2000) Pushing Politely: Improving Web Responsiveness One Packet at a Time. Technical Report DCS-TR-415, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University.

• B. D. Davison. (2000) Topical Locality in the Web: Experiments and Observations. Technical Report DCS-TR-414, 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, pages 101-103. Selected as "Tip of the Day" on 29 February 2000 for the HTML site on About.com.

• B. D. Davison, A. Gerasoulis, K. Kleisouris, Y. Lu, H. Seo, J. Tian, S. Wang, W. Wang, and B. Wu. (1999/2000) An Early DiscoWeb Prototype at TREC8. Proceedings of the Eighth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-8), November 16-19, 1999, Gaithersburg, MD: NIST.

• 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 24-28, 1999. Awarded Third Place, Graduate Category. Poster presented at the AT&T Student Research Symposium (a regional ACM Student Research Competition), November 13, 1998. Awarded First Place, PhD Division.

• S. A. Macskassy, A. Banerjee, B. D. Davison, and H. Hirsh (1998) Human Performance on Clustering Web Pages. Technical Report DCS-TR-355, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University.

• L. Steinberg, J. S. Hall, and B. D. Davison (1998) Highest Utility First Search: a Control Method for Multi-level Stochastic Design. HPCD Technical Report #59, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University.

• B. D. Davison and H. Hirsh. (1997) Experiments in UNIX Command Prediction. Machine Learning Technical Report ML-TR-41, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University.

• B. D. Davison. (1991) On the Probabilistic Logic and the McCullogh-Pitts Neuron Models. Undergraduate Honors Thesis in Computer Science and Engineering, Bucknell University.