Publications

Since its inception, the SIFTER project has focussed on a wide array of problems in the general area of information filtering. Below, the publications generated by the project members are grouped by topical categories.

Books, Journals & Conferences

• Information Representation & Classification

  • Mostafa, J., & Lam, W. "Automatic Classification Using Supervised Learning in a Medical Document Filtering Application." Information Processing & Management, 36(3), 415-444, 2000.

  • Mostafa, J., Quiroga, L., & Palakal, M. "Filtering Medical Documents Using Automated and Human Classification Methods." Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49(14), 1304-1318, 1998.

  • Jacob, E., Mostafa, J., & Quiroga, L. "An Approach to the Evaluation of Automatically Generated Classification Schemes." In P. Solomon (Ed.), Advances in Classification Research, Vol. 7 (pp. 78-98). Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1997.

• User Modeling

  • Lam, W. & Mostafa, J. "Modeling User Interest Shift Using a Bayesian Approach". Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology , 52(5), 416-429, 2001.
  • Quiroga, L., & Mostafa, J. "Empirical Evaluation of Explicit versus Implicit Acquisition of User Profiles in Information Filtering Systems. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Conference, Nov. 11-16, 2000.

  • Lam, W., Mukhopadhyay, S., Mostafa, J., & Palakal, M. "Detection of Shifts in User Interests for Personalized Information Filtering." Proceedings of the 19th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Zurich, Switzerland. August 18-22, 1996.

  • Mukhopadhyay, S., Mostafa, J., Palakal, M., Lam, W., Xue, L., & Hudli, A. "An Adaptive Multilevel Information Filtering System." Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference on User Modeling, Kona,HI, USA. January 2-5, 1996.

• Filtering Model & Comprehensive Analysis

  • Mostafa, J., Mukhopadhyay, S., Lam, W., & Palakal, M. "A Multilevel Approach to Intelligent Information Filtering: Model, System and Evaluation." ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 15(4), 368-399, 1997.

• Distributed Filtering & Multiagent Protocols

  • Raje, R., Mukhopadhyay, S., Boyles, M., Papiez, A., Patel, N., Palakal, M., & Mostafa, J. "A Bidding Mechanism for Web-Based Agents Involved in Information Classification." World Wide Web Journal, Special Issue on Distributed World Wide Web Processing: Applications and Techniques of Web Agents, 1(1998) 155-165 -- Editor: Osman Balci -- Guest Editors: Paolo Ciancarini, Robert Tolksdorf and Jan Vitek -- Publisher: Baltzer Science, The Netherlands.

  • Raje, R., Mukhopadhyay, S., Boyles, M., Papiez, A., & Mostafa, J. "An Economic Framework for a Web-based Collaborative Information Classifier." Proceedings of the International Association of Science and Technology for Development, SE'97 Conference, 1997.

  • Raje, R., Mukhopadhyay, S., Boyles, M., Patel, N., & Mostafa, J. "On Designing and Implementing a Collaborative System Using Java-RMI." Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Advanced Computing, 1997.

  • Raje, R., Mukhopadhyay, S., Boyles, M., Patel, N., & Mostafa, J. "D-SIFTER: A Collaborative Information Classifier." Proceedings of the First International Conference on Information, Communications, & Signal Processing, 1997.