Evolving Strategies for the Prisoner’s Dilemma (2009)
Abstract:- This paper investigates the use of Genetic Algorithms (GA’s) to evolve optimal strategies to the Prisoner’s Dilemma, a classic game theory problem. The problem was heavily studied in...
The dynamics of web-based social networks: Membership, relationships, and change (2009)
Social networks on the web are growing dramatically in size and number. The huge popularity of sites like MySpace, Facebook, and others has drawn in hundreds of millions of users, and the attention...
Trust-based revision for expressive web syndication (2009)
Jennifer Golbeck, Christian Halaschek-wiener
Interest in web-based syndication systems has been growing as information streams onto the web at an increasing rate. Technologies, like the standard Semantic Web languages RDF and OWL, make it...
Trust-based Revision for Expressive Web Syndication (2009)
Golbeck, Jennifer, Halaschek-Wiener, Christian
Interest in web-based syndication systems has been growing as information streams onto the web at an increasing rate. Technologies, like the standard Semantic Web languages RDF and OWL, make it...
ABSTRACT Evolving Optimal Parameters for Swarm Control (2008)
Using many inexpensive rovers in place of single costly ones is an idea that has been gaining attention in the last decade. How to effectively control those rovers is an open question, but swarming...
CLASSIFYING COMPUTER GENERATED CHARTS (2008)
V. Shiv, Naga Prasad, Behjat Siddiquie, Jennifer Golbeck, Larry S. Davis
We present an approach for classifying images of charts based on the shape and spatial relationships of their primitives. Five categories are considered: bar-charts, curveplots, pie-charts,...
Abstract. Social Network data, represented using the FOAF Vocabulary, is some of the most prevalent data on the Semantic Web. In this work, we look particularly at trust relationships in web-based...
Manuscript Metcalfe's Law Applies to Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web (2008)
Dr. Jennifer Golbeck, James Hendler, Jennifer Golbeck
Abstract: The power of the Web is enhanced through the network effect produced as resources link to each other with the value determined by Metcalfe's law. In Web 2.0 applications, much of that...
Jennifer Golbeck, James Hendler
Provenance is critically important for scientific workflow systems, as it allows users to verify data, repeat experiments, and discover dependencies. The Semantic Web is a natural fit for...
ABSTRACT Linking Social Networks on the Web with FOAF (2008)
One of the core goals of the Semantic Web is to store data in distributed locations, and use ontologies and reasoning to aggregate it. Social networking is a large movement on the web, and social...
Luc Moreau, Bertram Ludäscher, Ilkay Altintas, Roger S. Barga, Shawn Bowers, George Chin, ...
The first Provenance Challenge was a community activity aiming at understanding the expressiveness of provenance representations and capabilities of provenance systems. To this end, a Functional...
Jennifer Golbeck Web-based Social Networks: A Survey and Future Directions (2008)
Web-based social networks (WBSNs) are growing rapidly, and offer a tantalizing set of data for researchers. Not only are there millions of users and connections between them, but users are often...
Jennifer Golbeck, James Hendler
• Connections between people are extended with ratings • Ratings represent the reputation or trust that one person has for the other • Trust definition / subject specific 9
Luc Moreau, Bertram Ludäscher, Ilkay Altintas, Roger S. Barga, Shawn Bowers, Steven Callahan, ...
The first Provenance Challenge was set up in order to provide a forum for the community to understand the capabilities of different provenance systems and the expressiveness of their provenance...
Organization and Structure of Information using Semantic Web Technologies (2008)
Jennifer Golbeck, Amy Alford, James Hendler
Today's web has millions of pages that are dynamically generated from content stored in databases. This not only makes managing a large site easier, but is necessary for fully functioning...
Semantic Web Technologies for Terrorist Network Analysis (2008)
Jennifer Golbeck, Aaron Mannes, James Hendler
The Semantic Web is a new approach to using information online. When the web was originally created, it was designed as a place where users could store their documents, link them to other documents,...
Aditya Kalyanpur, Jennifer Golbeck, Jay Banerjee, James Hendler
The Semantic Web is an extension of the current World Wide Web. The hypertext pages that present information to humans remain, but a new layer of machine understandable data is added to allow...
Past evidence has shown that collaborative filtering approaches to recommender systems tend to poorly scale. Moreover, they have limited fitness for scenarios with distributed data storage and...
The fact that spam has become a ubiquitous problem has led to much research which concentrates on the development of tools to identify spam and prevent it from reaching the user’s mailbox. Less...
Abstract. Social Network data, represented using the FOAF Vocabulary, is some of the most prevalent data on the Semantic Web. In this work, we look particularly at trust relationships in web-based...
PaperPuppy: Sniffing the Trail of Semantic Web Publications (2008)
Jennifer Golbeck, Yarden Katz, Daniel Krech, Aaron Mannes, Taowei David, Wang James Hendler
Abstract. PaperPuppy is a system designed to allow the exploration and analysis of a network of ISWC conference authors and publications. Using proceeding data from the first four ISWC conferences,...
An RDF Editor and Portal for the Semantic Web (2008)
Aditya Kalyanpur And, Aditya Kalyanpur, Jennifer Golbeck, Michael Grove, Jim Hendler
RDF is emerging as one of the main languages for creating semantic markup on the web. The RDF Editor combines WYSIWIG HTML editing with a semantic web portal for guided semantic markup using...
Representation Formalisms and Methods – (2007)
Aditya Kalyanpur, Jennifer Golbeck, James Hendler, Bijan Parsia
The promise of the Semantic Web is founded on the principle that online content will be semantically annotated, creating machine-understandable content using interlinking ontologies. In keeping with...
Trusting Claims from Trusted Sources:Trust Network Based Filtering of Aggregated Claims (2007)
Jennifer Golbeck, Bijan Parsia
On the semantic web, assertions may be aggregated from many sources, those aggregations filtered, reasoned over, aggregated with other aggregators, displayed, scraped, extracted, recombined, and...
The dynamics of Web-based social networks: Membership, relationships, and change (2007)
Social networks on the Web are growing dramatically in size and number. The huge popularity of sites like MySpace, Facebook, and others has drawn in hundreds of millions of users, and the attention...
PaperPuppy: Sniffing the Trail of Semantic Web Publications (2006)
Golbeck, Jennifer, Katz, Yarden, Krech, Daniel, Mannes, Aaron, Wang, Taowei D., Hendler, James
PaperPuppy is a system designed to allow the exploration and analysis of a network of ISWC conference authors and publications. Using proceeding data from the first four ISWC conferences, we show...
Semantic Web Research Trends and Directions (2006)
Golbeck, Jennifer, Cuenca Gran, Bernardo, Halaschek-Wiener, Christian, Kalyanpur, Aditya, Katz, Yarden, Parsia, Bijan, ...
The Semantic Web is not a single technology, but rather a collection of technologies designed to work together. As a result, research on the Semantic Web intends both to advance individual...
Using Trust and Provenance for Content Filtering on the Semantic Web (2006)
Social networks are a popular movement on the web. Trust can be used effectively on the Semantic Web as annotations to social relationships. In this paper, we present a two level approach to...
Trust and nuanced profile similarity in online social networks (2006)
Online communities, where users maintain lists of friends and express their preferences for items like movies, music, or books, are very popular. The web-based nature of this information makes it...
Image browsing and natural language paraphrases of semantic web annotations (2006)
Christian Halaschek-wiener, Jennifer Golbeck, Bijan Parsia, Vladimir Kolovski, Jim Hendler
Abstract. Recently, there has been interest in marking up digital images with annotations describing the content of the images using Web based ontologies encoded in the W3C’s Web Ontology Language,...
David Brondsema, Andrew Schamp, Jennifer Golbeck, Aaron Mannes, Patricia Victor, Chris Cornelis, ...
Reconfigurable Systems (20 + 5 mins)
Generating Predictive Movie Recommendations from Trust in Social Networks (2006)
Abstract. Social networks are growing in number and size, with hundreds of millions of user accounts among them. One added benefit of these networks is that they allow users to encode more...
Image browsing and natural language paraphrases of semantic web annotations (2006)
Christian Halaschek-wiener, Jennifer Golbeck, Bijan Parsia, Vladimir Kolovski, Jim Hendler
Abstract. Recently, there has been interest in marking up digital images with annotations describing the content of the images using Web based ontologies encoded in the W3C’s Web Ontology Language,...
Annotation and provenance tracking in semantic web photo libraries (2006)
Christian Halaschek-wiener, Jennifer Golbeck, Andrew Schain, Bijan Parsia, Jim Hendler
Abstract. As the volume of digital images available on the Web continues to increase, there is a clear need for more advanced techniques for their effective retrieval and management. In this paper,...
Using Trust and Provenance for Content Filtering on the Semantic Web (2006)
Social networks are a popular movement on the web. Trust can be used effectively on the Semantic Web as annotations to social relationships. In this paper, we present a two level approach to...
Generating and Querying Semantic Web Environments for Photo Libraries (2005) (2005)
Axelrod, Adam, Golbeck, Jennifer, Shneiderman, Ben
Online photo libraries require a method to efficiently search a collection of photographs, and retrieve photos with similar attributes. Our motivation was to incorporate an existing collection of...
Computing and applying trust in web-based social networks [electronic resource] / (2005)
Thesis research directed by: Computer Science.
Computing and applying trust in web-based social networks (2005)
Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.
Generating and Querying Semantic Web Environments for Photo Libraries (2005) (2005)
Axelrod, Adam, Golbeck, Jennifer, Shneiderman, Ben
Online photo libraries require a method to efficiently search a collection of photographs, and retrieve photos with similar attributes. Our motivation was to incorporate an existing collection of...
A flexible approach for managing digital images on the semantic web (2005)
Christian Halaschek-wiener, Andrew Schain, Jennifer Golbeck, Bijan Parsia, Jim Hendler
Abstract. As the volume of digital images available on the Web continues to increase, there is a clear need for more advanced techniques for their effective retrieval and management. Recently, there...
Semantic Web Interaction through Trust Network Recommender Systems (2005)
In this paper, we present FilmTrust, a website that integrates Semantic Web-based social networks, augmented with trust, to create predictive movie recommendations. We show how these recommendations...
Inferring Trust Relationships in Web-Based Social Networks (2005)
Jennifer Golbeck, James Hendler
The growth of web-based social networking and the properties of those networks have created great potential for producing intelligent software that integrates a user's social network and...
Visualizing web ontologies with cropcircles (2005)
Bijan Parsia, Taowei Wang, Jennifer Golbeck
Abstract. We apply a new visualization for complex heirarchies, Crop-Circles, to the interactive visualization of Web Ontologies and E-Connections of Web Ontologies. 1
Building a Terrorism Ontology (2005)
Aaron Mannes, Jennifer Golbeck
Abstract. The Semantic Web could be a crucial tool to terrorism researchers, but to achieve this potential an accessible and flexible but comprehensive ontology needs to be designed to describe...
Abstract. Social networks are growing in number and size, with hundreds of millions of user accounts among them. One added benefit of these networks is that they allow users to encode information...
A flexible approach for managing digital images on the semantic web (2005)
Christian Halaschek-wiener, Andrew Schain, Jennifer Golbeck, Bijan Parsia, Jim Hendler
Abstract. As the volume of digital images available on the Web continues to increase, there is a clear need for more advanced techniques for their effective retrieval and management. Recently, there...
Visualizing web ontologies with cropcircles (2005)
Bijan Parsia, Taowei Wang, Jennifer Golbeck
Abstract. We apply a new visualization for complex heirarchies, Crop-Circles, to the interactive visualization of Web Ontologies and E-Connections of Web Ontologies. 1
Semantic Web Interaction on Internet Relay Chat (2004)
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a chat system that has millions of users. IRC robots (bots) are programs that sit in chat rooms and provide different services to users. The IRC bot as a mechanism for...
Reputation Network Analysis for Email Filtering (2004)
Jennifer Golbeck, James Hendler
In addition to traditional spam detection applications, new methods of filtering messages -- including whitelist and social network based filters -- are being investigated to further improve on mail...
Lifecycle of a casual web ontology development process (2004)
Aditya Kalyanpur, Nada Hashmi, Jennifer Golbeck, Bijan Parsia
Most of the existing ontology development toolkits are not catered towards ‘casual web ontology development’, a notion analogous to standard web page development. Key features of this process...
Accuracy of Metrics for Inferring Trust and Reputation in Semantic Web-Based Social Networks (2004)
Jennifer Golbeck, James Hendler
While most research on the topic of trust on the semantic web has focused largely on digital signatures, certificates, and authentication, more social notions of trust which are reputation-based are...
Inferring Reputation on the Semantic Web (2004)
The so-called "Web of Trust " is one of the ultimate goals of the Semantic Web. Research on the topic of trust in this domain has focused largely on digital signatures, certificates, and...
National Cancer Institute's Thesaurus and Ontology (2003)
Jennifer Golbeck, Gilberto Fragoso, Frank Hartel, Jim Hendler, Jim Oberthaler, Bijan Parsia
this paper will describe the terminology development process at NCI, and the issues associated with converting a description logic based nomenclature to a semantically rich OWL ontology
Visualization of Semantic Metadata and Ontologies (2003)
Implicit information embedded in semantic web graphs, such as topography, clusters, and disconnected subgraphs is difficult to extract from text files. Visualizations of the graphs can reveal some of...
Trust Networks on the Semantic Web (2003)
Jennifer Golbeck, Bijan Parsia, James Hendler
Abstract. The so-called "Web of Trust " is one of the ultimate goals of the Semantic Web. Research on the topic of trust in this domain has focused largely on digital signatures,...
Generating Predictive Movie Recommendations from Trust in Social Networks (1998)
Social networks are growing in number and size, with hundreds of millions of user accounts among them. One added benefit of these networks is that they allow users to encode more information about...
Inferring Trust Relationships in Web-Based Social Networks (1998)
Golbeck, Jennifer, Hendler, James
The growth of web-based social networking and the properties of those networks have created great potential for producing intelligent software that integrates a user's social network and preferences....
SMORE -Semantic Markup, Ontology, and RDF Editor (1998)
Kalyanpur, Aditya, Hendler, James, Parsia, Bijan, Golbeck, Jennifer
The promise of the Semantic Web is founded on the principle that online content will be semantically annotated, creating machine-understandable content using interlinking ontologies. In keeping with...
Trust Networks on the Semantic Web (1998)
Golbeck, Jennifer, Parisa, Bijan, Hendler, James
The so-called "Web of Trust" is one of the ultimate goals of the Semantic Web. Research on the topic of trust in this domain has focused largely on digital signatures, certificates, and...
A Flexible Approach for Managing Digital Images on the Semantic Web (1998)
Halaschek-Wiener, Christian, Schain, Andrew, Golbeck, Jennifer, Grove, Michael, Parsia, Bijan, Hendler, Jim
As the volume of digital images available on the Web continues to increase, there is a clear need for more advanced techniques for their effective retrieval and management. Recently, there has been...
Image Browsing and Natural Language Paraphrases of Semantic Web Annotations (1998)
Halaschek-Wiener, Christian, Golbeck, Jennifer, Parsia, Bijan, Kolovski, Vladimir, Hendler, Jim
Recently, there has been interest in marking up digital images with annotations describing the content of the images using Web-based ontologies encoded in the W3C's Web Ontology Language (OWL). The...