The ongoing rapid expansion of the Word Wide Web (WWW) greatly increases the
information of effective transmission from heterogeneous individuals to various systems …

Along with the development of Information Technology, Online Social Networks (OSN) are
constantly developing and have become popular media in the world. Besides …

The study of network robustness is a critical tool in the characterization and sense making of
complex interconnected systems such as infrastructure, communication and social networks …

The recent explosion in the adoption of search engines and new media such as blogs and
Twitter have facilitated faster propagation of news and rumors. How quickly does a piece of …

Controlling the dissemination of an entity (eg, meme, virus, etc) on a large graph is an
interesting problem in many disciplines. Examples include epidemiology, computer security …

Given a snapshot of a large graph, in which an infection has been spreading for some time,
can we identify those nodes from which the infection started to spread? In other words, can …

Given a graph, how can we extract good features for the nodes? For example, given two
large graphs from the same domain, how can we use information in one to do classification …

Given a fixed budget and an arbitrary cost for selecting each node, the budgeted influence
maximization (BIM) problem concerns selecting a set of seed nodes to disseminate some …

We present a method for tracking a hand while it is interacting with an object. This setting is
arguably the one where hand-tracking has most practical relevance, but poses significant …

Outlier analysis is an important data mining task that aims to detect unexpected, rare, and
suspicious objects. Outlier ranking enables enhanced outlier exploration, which assists the …