Publications by Brian D. Davison

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Patents, books, proceedings, and book chapters

• 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

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

• X. Qi and B. D. Davison. Web Page Classification: Features and Algorithms. Accepted (pending minor revisions) by ACM Computing Surveys.

• X. Qi and B. D. Davison. Classifiers without Borders: Incorporating Fielded Text from Neighboring Web Pages. To be published in Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Singapore, July.

• L. Nie and B. D. Davison. Separate and Inequal: Preserving Heterogeneity in Topical Authority Flows. To be published in Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 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), In press.

• 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.

• 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 the Information Access and Retrieval track of the 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-98), 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-98), 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

• 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.

• X. Qi and B. D. Davison. (2007) Web Page Classification: Features and Algorithms. Technical Report LU-CSE-07-010, 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.

• X. Qi, L. Nie and B. D. Davison. (2006) Measuring Similarity to Detect Qualified Links. Technical Report LU-CSE-06-033, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.

• 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.

• X. Qi and B. D. Davison. (2006) Knowing a Web Page by the Company It Keeps. Technical Report LU-CSE-06-011, 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, 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. 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.