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Research Areas

  1. Social media

Past Projects

  1. memeta

Refereed Publications

2018

  1. A. Renjan, K. P. Joshi, S. N. Narayanan, and A. Joshi, "DAbR: Dynamic Attribute-based Reputation scoring for Malicious IP Address Detection", InProceedings, IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI) 2018, November 2018, 139 downloads.

2016

  1. M. L. Mathews, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Detecting Botnets Using a Collaborative Situational-aware IDPS", InProceedings, Second International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, February 2016, 926 downloads.

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, 3224 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, 5745 downloads, 11 citations.
  2. 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, 7284 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, 4831 downloads, 5 citations.
  3. P. Kolari, T. Finin, A. Java, and A. Joshi, "Towards Spam Detection at Ping Servers", InProceedings, Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2007), March 2007, 2171 downloads, 5 citations.
  4. P. Kolari, A. Java, and A. Joshi, "Spam in Blogs and Social Media, Tutorial", InProceedings, ICWSM 2007, March 2007, 2832 downloads, 3 citations.
  5. 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, 3668 downloads, 7 citations.
  6. 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, 3072 downloads, 8 citations.

2006

  1. T. Finin, L. Kagal, and D. Olmedilla, "Report on the Models of Trust for the Web Workshop", Article, SIGMOD Record, December 2006, 330 downloads.
  2. 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, 7454 downloads, 11 citations.
  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, 10264 downloads, 75 citations.
  4. 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, 6667 downloads, 84 citations.
  5. 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, 11918 downloads, 112 citations.

Non-Refereed Publications

2007

  1. P. Kolari and A. Java, "Spam Blogs: Ping Servers and Adversaries", TechReport, March 2007.

2006

  1. 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, 10985 downloads, 47 citations.

Poster

  1. Detecting Spam Blogs: A Machine Learning Approach

Presentation

  1. On Leveraging Social Media
  2. spam in blogs and social media
  3. TREC Blog Open Task: Spam Blog Detection
  4. TREC Blog Open Task: Spam Blog Detection

Document

  1. Spam in Blogs and Social Media

Dataset

  1. Splog Blog Dataset

Old News

  1. Looking back at the ebiquity research group's 2006
    January 1, 2007
  2. UMBC researchers investigate the Blogosphere
    September 5, 2006
  3. Swoogle 2006 released
    February 1, 2006
  4. Welcome to the Splogosphere
    December 16, 2005

Old Events

  1. Analytics for Detecting Web and Social Media Abuse
    March 16, 2012
  2. Cost-Sensitive Information Acquisition for Prediction
    April 21, 2010
  3. Adversarial Classification: An Ensemble-based approach
    April 27, 2009
  4. Communities in Social Media: An Eyepiece into Context, User Intention and Influence
    June 30, 2008
  5. Detecting Spam Blogs: An Adaptive Online Approach
    September 25, 2007
  6. Detecting spam blogs (beta)
    September 24, 2007
  7. The Multi-Relational Blogosphere: Empirical Characterization and Spam Protection
    May 10, 2006
  8. Modeling the Spread of Influence on the Blogosphere
    April 12, 2006