In the fast-growing scholarly big data background, social network technologies have recently
aroused widespread attention in academia and industry. The concept of academic social …

With the development of sophisticated e-learning environments, personalization is
becoming an important feature in e-learning systems due to the differences in background …

People have looked for experts since before the advent of computers. With advances in
information retrieval technology and the large-scale availability of digital traces of …

The Twitter social network has become a target platform for both promoters and stammers to
disseminate their target messages. There are a large number of campaigns containing …

The rising popularity of social media in the enterprise presents new opportunities for one of
the organization's most important needs--expertise location. Social media data can be very …

Micro-blogging services such as Twitter allow anyone to publish anything, anytime.
Needless to say, many of the available contents can be diminished as babble or spam …

Reputable users are valuable assets of a web site. We focus on user reputation in a
comment rating environment, where users make comments about content items and rate the …

Credibility, as the general concept covering trustworthiness and expertise, but also quality
and reliability, is strongly debated in philosophy, psychology, and sociology, and its …

Tagging in online social networks is very popular these days, as it facilitates search and
retrieval of multimedia content. However, noisy and spam annotations often make it difficult …

Recently expertise retrieval has received increasing interests in both academia and industry.
Finding experts with demonstrated expertise for a given query is a nontrivial task especially …