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Pranam Kolari
Pranam Kolari

Alumnus

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University of Maryland Baltimore County
Computer Science, ITE 377, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA

Graduated in September 2007

Pranam Kolari

Publications

2009

  1. D. Chinavle, P. Kolari, T. Oates, and T. Finin, "Ensembles in Adversarial Classification for Spam", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, November 2009, 4392 downloads, 1 citation.

2008

  1. T. Finin, A. Joshi, P. Kolari, A. Java, A. Kale, and A. Karandikar, "The Information ecology of social media and online communities", Article, AI Magazine, September 2008, 6787 downloads, 11 citations.
  2. P. Kolari, T. Finin, K. Lyons, and Y. Yesha, "Expert Search using Internal Corporate Blogs", InProceedings, Workshop on Future Challenges in Expertise Retrieval, SIGIR 2008, July 2008, 2529 downloads, 4 citations.
  3. P. Kolari, "Spings und Splog", Article, Linux Technical Review, May 2008.

2007

  1. P. Kolari, "Detecting Spam Blogs: An Adaptive Online Approach", PhdThesis, Ph.D. Dissertation, December 2007, 8826 downloads, 3 citations.
  2. A. Joshi, T. Finin, A. Java, A. Kale, and P. Kolari, "Web 2.0 Mining: Analyzing Social Media", InProceedings, Proceedings of the NSF Symposium on Next Generation of Data Mining and Cyber-Enabled Discovery for Innovation, October 2007, 5947 downloads, 5 citations.
  3. J. Martineau, A. Java, P. Kolari, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and J. Mayfield, "BlogVox: Learning Sentiment Classifiers", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Twenty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2007, 2065 downloads, 2 citations.
  4. A. Kale, P. Kolari, A. Java, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "On Modeling Trust in Social Media using Link Polarity", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2007, 3882 downloads.
  5. A. Java, P. Kolari, T. Finin, A. Joshi, and T. Oates, "Feeds That Matter: A Study of Bloglines Subscriptions", InProceedings, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), March 2007, 7203 downloads, 17 citations.
  6. A. Kale, A. Karandikar, P. Kolari, A. Java, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Modeling Trust and Influence in the Blogosphere Using Link Polarity", InProceedings, Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2007), March 2007, 4942 downloads, 36 citations.
  7. P. Kolari, T. Finin, Y. Yesha, Y. Yesha, K. Lyons, S. Perelgut, and J. Hawkins, "On the Structure, Properties and Utility of Internal Corporate Blogs", InProceedings, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), March 2007, 14961 downloads, 43 citations.
  8. P. Kolari, T. Finin, A. Java, and A. Joshi, "Spam in Blogs and Social Media, Tutorial", InProceedings, ICWSM 2007, March 2007, 3832 downloads, 3 citations.
  9. P. Kolari, T. Finin, A. Java, and A. Joshi, "Towards Spam Detection at Ping Servers", InProceedings, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), March 2007, 2884 downloads, 5 citations.
  10. P. Kolari and A. Java, "Spam Blogs: Ping Servers and Adversaries", TechReport, March 2007.
  11. A. Java, P. Kolari, T. Finin, A. Joshi, J. Martineau, and J. Mayfield, "The BlogVox Opinion Retrieval System", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006), February 2007, 4462 downloads, 7 citations.
  12. A. Java, P. Kolari, T. Finin, J. Mayfield, A. Joshi, and J. Martineau, "BlogVox: Separating Blog Wheat from Blog Chaff", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data, 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2007), January 2007, 3835 downloads, 8 citations.

2006

  1. P. Kolari, A. Java, T. Finin, J. Mayfield, A. Joshi, and J. Martineau, "Blog Track Open Task: Spam Blog Classification", InCollection, TREC 2006 Blog Track Notebook, November 2006, 8584 downloads, 11 citations.
  2. P. Kolari, T. Finin, Y. Yesha, K. Lyons, S. Perelgut, and J. Hawkins, "Monitoring Conversations on the Blogosphere: An Enterprise Perspective", InProceedings, CASCON 2006 Exhibit Program, October 2006.
  3. P. Kolari, A. Java, T. Finin, T. Oates, and A. Joshi, "Detecting Spam Blogs: A Machine Learning Approach", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2006), July 2006, 11561 downloads, 75 citations.
  4. P. Kolari, T. Finin, Y. Yesha, K. Lyons, J. Hawkins, and S. Perelgut, "Policy Management of Enterprise Systems: A Requirements Study", InProceedings, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, June 2006, 5777 downloads, 4 citations.
  5. P. Kolari, A. Java, and T. Finin, "Characterizing the Splogosphere", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Workshop on Weblogging Ecosystem: Aggregation, Analysis and Dynamics, 15th World Wid Web Conference, May 2006, 7675 downloads, 84 citations.
  6. B. Aleman-Meza, M. Nagarajan, C. Ramakrishnan, A. Sheth, B. Arpinar, L. Ding, P. Kolari, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Semantic Analytics on Social Networks: Experiences in Addressing the Problem of Conflict of Interest Detection", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 15th International World Wide Web Conference,, May 2006, 4220 downloads, 106 citations.
  7. P. Kolari, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "SVMs for the Blogosphere: Blog Identification and Splog Detection", InProceedings, AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Approaches to Analysing Weblogs, March 2006, 14485 downloads, 112 citations.
  8. A. Java, P. Kolari, T. Finin, and T. Oates, "Modeling the Spread of Influence on the Blogosphere", TechReport, UMBC TR-CS-06-03, March 2006, 20590 downloads, 47 citations.
  9. P. Kolari, Y. Yesha, K. Lyons, S. Perelgut, J. Hawkins, and T. Finin, "Policy Management of Enterprise Systems: A Requirements Study", TechReport, TR-CS-06-02, March 2006, 3127 downloads.
  10. P. Kolari and T. Finin, "Memeta: A Framework for Multi-Relational Analytics on the Blogosphere", InProceedings, AAAI 2006 Student Abstract Program, February 2006, 4957 downloads.

2005

  1. L. Ding, R. Pan, T. Finin, A. Joshi, Y. Peng, and P. Kolari, "Finding and Ranking Knowledge on the Semantic Web", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 4th International Semantic Web Conference, November 2005, 13668 downloads, 130 citations.
  2. L. Ding, P. Kolari, Z. Ding, S. Avancha, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Using Ontologies in the Semantic Web: A Survey", InBook, Ontologies A Handbook of Principles, Concepts and Applications in Information Systems, October 2005, 8910 downloads, 36 citations.
  3. L. Ding, P. Kolari, Z. Ding, S. Avancha, and A. Joshi, "Using Ontologies in the Semantic Web: A Survey", TechReport, TR-CS-05-07, July 2005, 7792 downloads.
  4. T. Finin, L. Ding, R. Pan, A. Joshi, P. Kolari, A. Java, and Y. Peng, "Swoogle: Searching for knowledge on the Semantic Web", InProceedings, AAAI 05 (intelligent systems demo), July 2005, 5904 downloads, 35 citations.
  5. P. Kolari, L. Ding, S. Ganjugunte, L. Kagal, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Enhancing Web Privacy Protection through Declarative Policies", InProceedings, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Policy for Distributed Systems and Networks(POLICY 2005), June 2005, 8274 downloads, 27 citations.
  6. L. Ding, P. Kolari, T. Finin, A. Joshi, Y. Peng, and Y. Yesha, "On Homeland Security and the Semantic Web: A Provenance and Trust Aware Inference Framework", InProceedings, Proceedings of the AAAI SPring Symposium on AI Technologies for Homeland Security, March 2005, 4516 downloads, 32 citations.
  7. P. Kolari and L. Ding, "BPEL for Web Services: Rounding off the Essentials", Article, SDA-Asia Computing Magazine, June/July 2005. , February 2005, 3235 downloads.

2004

  1. P. Kolari, L. Ding, L. Kagal, S. Ganjugunte, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Enhancing P3P Framework through Policies and Trust", TechReport, UMBC Technical Report, TR-CS-04-13, September 2004, 4345 downloads.
  2. P. Kolari and A. Joshi, "Web Mining - Research and Practice", Article, IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering - Web Engineering Special Issue, August 2004, 4702 downloads, 25 citations.
  3. L. Ding, P. Kolari, S. Ganjugunte, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Modeling and Evaluating Trust Network Inference", InProceedings, Seventh International Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies at AAMAS 2004, July 2004, 5044 downloads, 31 citations.
  4. P. Kolari, "Enhancing Web Privacy with Policy Language and Trust", MastersThesis, UMBC Master's thesis, May 2004, 4764 downloads.

Past Projects

  1. memeta, Ph.D. Student
  2. Policy Management for Enterprise Applications, Ph.D. Student
  3. Privacy for the WWW, Student
  4. Securing the Semantic Web: A Trust Management Approach, Ph.D. Student
  5. Semantic Discovery: Discovering Complex Relationships in Semantic Web, Student
  6. Swoogle, Ph.D. Student
  7. Vox Blogguli, Adjunct Faculty

Assertions

  1. (Photo) Pranam Kolari MS defense shows (Person) Pranam Kolari.
  2. (Photo) Pranam Kolari shows (Person) Pranam Kolari.
  3. (Photo) Pranam and Yang Yu shows (Person) Pranam Kolari.
  4. (Photo) Nimish and Pranam shows (Person) Pranam Kolari.
  5. (Person) Pranam Kolari took (Photo) Anand's Proposal Defense.
  6. (Photo) Pranam Kolari shows (Person) Pranam Kolari.