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主讲人Patrick博士是该领域的知名专家，在数据挖掘、信息系统领域也成果斐然（参见华丽丽的简历），这次学术报告是咱们院老师通过私人关系争取的非常难得的交流机会，强烈推荐大家参加！大家有关于他的研究方向的问题可以深入与之探讨，相信他的讲座会在学术上为大家开拓视野。（会有部分管院老师到场一起讨论）由于该老师有着国内本科→新加坡硕士→美国博士→教师→讲师→助理教授→副教授→创业的人生经历，因此大家有关于出国留学的问题也可以尽情请教！樊教授的研究经历、论文获奖经历也十分丰富，推荐准备或即将出国的同学们，准备发表论文的同学们，多请教他关于学术研究方法论的问题。报告题目：Competitive Actions and Dynamics in Social Networking Services 时间：6月25日，周五，下午3点地点：明光楼 611 报告语言：中文。英语交流也是被欢迎的。附：该老师简历（中文是我自己翻的，可能不太准确，而且好多文字链接丢失了，还是看他网站的英文吧）樊卫国博士 Weiguo (Patrick) Fan, Ph.D. 副教授马伦哈瑞尔研究员（Mahlon Harrell Research Fellow）弗吉尼亚理工学院暨州立大学 Pamplin商学院会计与信息系统系地址： 3007 Pamplin Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA 电邮： wfan@vt.edu 网址： http://www.acis.pamplin.vt.edu/fac/fan.htm ——教育背景—— 博士学位商业管理-信息系统专业 2002年，美国密歇根大学安娜堡校区罗斯商学院理学硕士学位计算机科学专业 1998年，新加坡新加坡国立大学计算机学院工程学士学位(荣誉) 信息科学与工程专业 1995年，中国西安交通大学 ——工作经历—— Facet 分析有限责任公司，美国弗吉尼亚州布莱克斯堡 2009年至今联合创始人（这段原话是Co-founder, Facet Analytics LLC, Blacksburg, VA，估计是创业做了一个咨询公司）弗吉尼亚理工学院暨州立大学，美国弗吉尼亚州布莱克斯堡副教授，计算机科学-信息系统 2006年起助理教授，计算机科学-信息系统 2002年 - 2006年 ——所教课程—— ACIS 1504 : 商业信息系统概论 ACIS/BIT 4554 : 商业电信与网络 ACIS/BIT 4564 : JAVA面向对象系统开发 ACIS4024/5014 : 信息系统审计与控制 ACIS5704 (PMBA) : 行政决策管理信息系统密歇根大学安娜堡校区商学院，美国密歇根州讲师，计算机与信息系统 2001 新加坡国立大学，新加坡指导教师，信息系统与计算机科学 1997年 ——学术期刊论文—— 1. D. Gnyawali, W. Fan, J. Penner, “Competitive actions and dynamics in the digital age: An empirical investigation of social networking firms,” forthcoming at Information Systems Research, 2010. 2. J. Yan, N. Liu, W. Fan, Q. Yang, Z. Chen, W. Wei, “Trace oriented feature analysis for large scale text data dimension reduction,” forthcoming at IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2010. 3. M. J. Lawson, J. Jiao, W. Fan, and L. Zhang, “A Pattern Analysis of Gene Conversion Literature,” Comparative and Functional Genomics, vol. 2009, Article ID 761512, 11 pages, 2009. doi:10.1155/2009/761512 4. W. Fan, P. Pathak, M. Zhou, “Genetic-based approaches in ranking function discovery and optimization in information retrieval - A framework,” 47(4), 398-407, Decision Support Systems, 2009. 5. L. C. Schaupp, F. Belanger, W. Fan, “Examining the success of websites beyond e-Commerce: An extension of the IS Success Model”, Journal of Computer Information Systems, 49(4), 42-52, 2009. 6. X. Lin, J. Yan, W. Fan, N. Liu, S. Yan, Z. Chen, “An online blog reading system by topic clustering and personalized ranking,” ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 9(3), 1-26, 2009. 7. H. Lin, W. Fan, Z. Zhang, “A qualitative study of Web-based knowledge communities: Examining success factors,” International Journal of e-Collaboration, 5(3), 39-57, 2009. 8. R. S. Torres, A. Falcao, M. A. Goncalves, J. P. Papa, B. Zhang, W. Fan, and E. A. Fox, “A genetic programming framework for content-based image retrieval”, 42(2), 283-292, Pattern Recognition, 2009. 9. R. Shen, N.S. Vemuri, W. Fan, E.A. Fox, “Integration of complex archaeology digital libraries: An ETANA-DL experience,” Information Systems, 33(7-8), 699-723, 2008. 10. D. Roussinov, W. Fan, J. Robles, “Beyond keywords: Automated question answering on the Web,” Communications of the ACM, 51(9), 60-65, 2008. 11. E.A. Fox, C. Andrews, W. Fan, J. Jiao, A. Kassahun, S.-C. Lu, Y. Ma, C. North, N. Ramakrishnan, A. Scarpa, B.H. Friedman, S. D. Sheetz, D. Shoemaker, V. Srinivasan, S. Yang, L. Boutwell, “A digital library for recovery, research, and learning from April 16, 2007 at Virginia Tech,” Journal of Traumatology, 14(1), 2008. 12. Z. Zhang, W. Fan, “Web server load balancing: A queueing analysis,” European Journal of Operational Research, 186(2), 681-693, 2008. 13. Y. Yuan, W. Fan, C. Li, “Spline function smooth support vector machine for classification,” Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization, 3(3), 529-542, 2007. 14. W. Fan, P. Pathak, L. Wallace, “Nonlinear ranking function representations in genetic programming-based ranking discovery for personalized Web search,” Decision Support Systems, 42(3), 1338-1349, 2006. 15. W. Fan, M. D. Gordon, P. Pathak, “On linear mixture of expert approaches to information retrieval,” Decision Support Systems, 42(2), 975-987, 2006. 16. W. Fan, M. D. Gordon, P. Pathak, “An integrated two-stage model for intelligent information routing,” Decision Support Systems, 42(1), 362-374, 2006. 17. W. Fan, L. Wallace, S. Rich and Z. Zhang “Tapping the power of text mining,” Communications of the ACM, 49(9), 76-82, 2006. Also reprinted in IT management select 13(1), 42-49, 2007. IT management select publishes selected prime articles from international press on IT management. 18. F. Belanger, W. Fan, C. Schaupp, J. Everhart, D. Poteet, A. Krishen, K. Nakamoto, “Website success metrics: addressing the duality of goals,” Communications of the ACM, 49(12), 114-116, 2006. 19. M. D. Gordon, W. Fan, P. Pathak, “Adaptive Web search: evolving a program that finds information,” IEEE Intelligent Systems, 21(5), 72-77, 2006. 20. E. A. Fox, F. D. Neves, X. Yu, R. Shen, S. Kim, W. Fan, “Exploring the computing literature with visualization and stepping stones & pathways,” Communications of the ACM, 49(4), 52-58, 2006. 21. H. Wu, M. Gordon, K. Demaagd, W. Fan, “Mining Web navigations for intelligence,” Decision Support Systems, 41(3), 574-591, 2006. 22. J. Yan, B. Zhang, N. Liu, S. Yan, Q. Cheng, W. Fan, Q. Yang, W. Xi, Z. Chen, “Effective and efficient dimensionality reduction for large scale and streaming data preprocessing,” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 18(3), 320-333, 2006. 23. W. Fan, M. D. Gordon and P. Pathak, “Genetic programming-based discovery of ranking functions for effective Web search,” Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), 21(4), 37-56, 2005. 24. W. Fan, M. D. Gordon, P. Pathak, “Effective profiling of consumer information retrieval needs: a unified framework and empirical comparison,” Decision Support Systems, 40(2), 213-233, 2005. 25. D. Radev, W. Fan, H. Qi, H. Wu, A. Grewal, “Probabilistic question answering on the Web,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 56(6), 571-583, 2005. 26. R. Barkhi, E. Rolland, J. Butler, W. Fan, “Decision support system induced guidance for model formulation and solution,” Decision Support Systems, 40(2), 269-281, 2005. 27. W. Fan, M.D. Gordon, P. Pathak, “A generic ranking function discovery framework by genetic programming for information retrieval,” Information Processing and Management, 40(4), 587-602, 2004. 28. W. Fan, M. D. Gordon, P. Pathak, “Discovery of context-specific ranking functions for effective information retrieval by Genetic Programming,” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 16(4), 523-527, 2004. 29. W. Fan, E. Fox and P. Pathak, H. Wu, “The effects of fitness functions on genetic programming-based ranking discovery for Web search,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(7), pp. 628-636, 2004. 30. M. D. Gordon, W. Fan, S. Rafaeli, H. Wu, N. Farag, “The architecture of CommKnowledge: combining link structure and user actions to support an online community,” International Journal of Electronic Business, 1(1), 69-82, 2003. 31. M. D. Gordon, R. Lindsay, W. Fan, “Literature-based discovery on the WWW,” ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), 2(4), 262-275, 2002. 32. D. R. Radev, K. Libner, W. Fan, “Getting answers to natural language questions on the Web,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 53(5), 359-364, 2002. 33. W. Fan, H. Lu, S. Madnick, D. Cheung, “DIRECT: a system for mining data value conversion rules from disparate sources,” Decision Support Systems, 34(1), 19-39, 2001. 34. W. Fan, H. Lu, S. Madnick, D. Cheung, “Discovering and reconciling data value conflicts for data integration,” Information Systems, 26(8), 635-656, 2001. 35. K. H. Phua, W. Fan, Y. Zeng, “Parallel algorithms for large scale nonlinear optimization,” Journal of International Transactions in Operational Research, 5(1), 67-77, 1998. 学术书籍章节 36. X. Yu, M. Tungare, W. Fan, Y. Yuan, M. Pérez-Quiñones, E. A. Fox, W. Cameron, L. Cassel, “Automatic syllabus classification using support vector machines,” in Handbook of Research on Text and Web Mining Technologies, Idea Group Inc, 2008. 37. X. Yu, M. Tungare, W. Fan, M. Pérez-Quiñones, E. A. Fox, W. Cameron, L. Cassel, “Automatic genre-specific text classification,” in Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining (2nd edition), Idea Group Inc, 2008. 38. B. Zhang, W. Fan, M. Goncalves, Y. Chen and E. A. Fox, P. Calado and M. Cristo, “A genetic programming approach for combining structural and citation-based evidence for text classification in web digital libraries,” 25 pages, in Soft Computing for Information Retrieval, Springer, 2005. 39. W. Fan, P. Pathak, “Discovering ranking functions for information retrieval,” in Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, Idea Group Inc., 13 pages, 2005. 40. H. Wu, W. Fan, “E-health communities: scalability challenges to information management,” in E-Health Paradigm Shift: Perspectives, Domains and Cases, John Wiley, 2004. 41. H. Wu, D. R. Radev, W. Fan, “Towards answer-focused summarization using search engines,” in New Directions in Question Answering, edited by Mark Maybury, AAAI Press, pp. 227-236, 2004. ——学术会议论文—— 42. G. Wang, J. Jiao, W. Fan, “Searching for authoritative documents in knowledge-based communities,” in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems 2009, Phoenix, AZ, 2009. 43. L. Ji, J. Yan, N. Liu, W. Zhang, W. Fan, Z. Chen, “ExSearch: A novel vertical search engine for online barter business”, in the Proceedings of the ACM 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Hong Kong, 2009. 44. N. Liu, J. Yan, W. Fan, Q. Yang, Z. Chen, “Identifying vertical search intention of query through social tagging propagation,” in the Proceedings of 18th International Conference on World Wide Web, Madrid, Spain, 1209-1210, 2009. 45. J. Jiao, J. Yan, W. Fan, H. Zhao, “An expert user ranking algorithm in online communities,” in the Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on New Trends in Information and Service Science (NISS 2009), Beijing, China, 2009. 46. C. D. Ferreira, R. da S. Torres, M. A. Goncalves, W. Fan, “Image Retrieval with Relevance Feedback based on Genetic Programming”, in the Proceedings of the XXIII Simpósio Brasileiro de Banco de Dados (Brazilian Symposium on Database), Campinas, Brazil, 2008. Winner of the best paper award. 47. J. Yan, N. Liu, Q. Yang, W. Fan, Z. Chen, “TOFA: Trace oriented feature analysis in text categorization”, in the Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Pisa, Italy, 2008. 48. D. Chen, J. Yan, G. Wang, Y. Xiong, W. Fan, Z. Chen, “TransRank: A novel algorithm for transfer of rank learning,” in the Proceedings of the ICDM Workshop on Domain-Driven Data Mining, pp. 106-115, Pisa, Italy, 2008. 49. N. Liu, J. Yan, S. Yan, W. Fan, Z. Chen, “Web query prediction by unifying model,” in the Proceedings of the ICDM Workshop on Spatial and Spatial-Temporal Data Mining, pp. 436-441, Pisa, Italy, 2008. 50. S. Ai, R. Du, and W. Fan, “Discovering and sharing experiential knowledge through active mining and friendly delivery: A design of EKDSS,” in the Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, pp. 570-575, Beijing, P.R. China, 2008. 51. X. Yu, M. Tungare, W. Fan, Y. Yuan, M. Pérez-Quiñones, E. A. Fox, W. Cameron, L. Cassel, “Using automatic metadata extraction to build a structured syllabus repository,” in the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, 2007. 52. X. Yu, M. Tungare, W. Fan, M. Pérez-Quiñones, E. A. Fox., W. Cameron, G. Teng, L. Cassel, “Automatic syllabus classification,” in the Proceedings of the Seventh ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries ( JCDL), 2007. 53. M. Tungare, X. Yu, W. Cameron, G. Teng, M. Pérez-Quiñones, E. A. Fox., W. Fan, L. Cassel, “Towards a syllabus repository for computer science courses,” in the Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), 2007. 54. H. Lin, W. Fan, L. Wallace, Z. Zhang, “An empirical study of knowledge community success,” in the Proceedings of the 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January 3-6, Big Islands, HI, 2007. 55. M. Tungare, X. Yu, M. Pérez-Quiñones, E. A. Fox, W. Fan, and L. Cassel, “Towards a standardized representation of syllabi to facilitate sharing and personalization of digital library content,” In the Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-Learning, Dublin, Ireland, 2006. 56. Robert E. Crossler, France Bélanger, and W. Fan, “Determinants of Information Security End User Behavior,” Workshop on Information Security and Assurance, Dec. 10, Milwaukee, WI, 2006. 57. Rao Shen, Naga Srinivas Vemuri, W. Fan, Edward A. Fox, “What Is a Successful Digital Library?” in the Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), Alicante, Spain, 2006. 58. Naga Srinivas Vemuri, Ricardo da Silva Torres, Rao Shen, Marcos André Gonçalves, W. Fan, Edward A. Fox, “A Content-Based Image Retrieval Service for Archaeology Collections,” in the Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), Alicante, Spain, 2006. 59. Johnny L. Sam-Rajkumar, Rao Shen, Naga Srinivas Vemuri, W. Fan, Edward A. Fox: “EtanaCMV: A Visual Browsing Interface for ETANA-DL Based on Coordinated Multiple Views,” in the Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), Alicante, Spain, 2006. 60. R. Shen, N. S. Vemuri, W. Fan, E. A. Fox, “Exploring Digital Libraries: Integrating Browsing, Searching and Visualization,” in the Proceedings of 2006 ACM-IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Chapel Hill, NC, 2006. 61. N. S. Vemuri, R. Shen, S. Tupe, W. Fan, E. A. Fox, “ETANA-ADD: An interactive tool for integrating archaeological DL collections,” in the Proceedings of 2006 ACM-IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Chapel Hill, NC, 2006. 62. H. Lin, W. Fan, Z. Zhang, “Unveiling critical success factors for a Web-based knowledge community,” in the Proceedings of the 16th Biennial Conference for International Telecommunication Society, June 11-16, Beijing, P.R. China, 2006. 63. A. Lacerda, M. Cristo, M. Gonçalves, W. Fan, N. Ziviani, “Learning to Advertise,” in the Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Seattle, WA, 2006. 64. L. C. Schaupp, W. Fan, F. Belanger, “Determining success for different website goals,” in the Proceedings of the 39th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Kauai, Hawaii, 2006. 65. D. Roussinov, W. Fan, “Learning ranking vs. modeling relevance,” in the Proceedings of the 39th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Kauai, Hawaii, 2006. Nominated for the best conference paper 66. N. Liu, J. Yan, F. Bai, B. Zhang, W. Xi, W. Fan, Z. Chen, L. Ji, C. Hu, W-Yi Ma, “A similarity reinforcement algorithm for heterogeneous Web pages,” in the Proceedings of the APWeb 2005, 121-132, 2005. 67. B. Zhang, M. Goncalves, W. Fan, Y. Chen and E. A. Fox, P. Calado and M. Cristo, “Intelligent GP fusion from multiple sources for text classification,” in the Proceedings of the ACM 14th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Bremen, Germany, 2005. 68. D. Roussinov, W. Fan, and F. A. D. Neves, “Semantic verification for fact seeking engines,” in the Proceedings of the ACM 14th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2005. 69. R. S. Torres, A. X. Falcão, B. Zhang, W. Fan, E. A. Fox, M. A. Gonçalves, P. Calado, “A new framework to combine descriptors for content-based image retrieval,” in the Proceedings of the ACM 14th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2005 70. D. Roussinov, W. Fan, “Learning global and local weighting for information retrieval,” in the Proceedings of 2005 HLT/EMNLP Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2005. 71. D. Roussinov, W. Fan, “Mining context specific similarity relationships using the World Wide Web,” in the Proceedings of 2005 HLT/EMNLP Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2005. 72. H. Li, B. Zhang, Z. Chen, Y. Liu, J. Lei, W. Xi, W. Fan, W. Ma, “Improving search results using affinity graph,” in the Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Salvador, Brazil, 15-19 Aug. 2005. 73. W. Xi, E. A. Fox, W. Fan, B. Zhang, Z. Chen, J. Yan, D. Zhuang, “SimFusion: Measuring similarity using unified relationship matrix,” in the Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Salvador, Brazil, 2005. 74. J. Yan, B. Zhang, N. Liu, S. Yan, Q. Cheng, W. Fan, Z. Chen and W. Ma, "OCFS: Orthogonal centroid feature selection,” in the Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Salvador, Brazil, 2005. 75. A. Raghavan, N. S. Vemuri, R. Shen, M. A. Goncalves, W. Fan, E. A. Fox, “Incremental, semi-automatic, mapping-based integration of heterogeneous collections into archaeological digital libraries: Megiddo case study,” in the Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), Vienna, Austria, 2005. 76. R. Shen, M. A. Gonçalves, W. Fan, E. A. Fox, “Requirements gathering and modeling of domain-specific digital libraries with the 5S framework: An archaeological case study with ETANA,” in the Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), Vienna, Austria, 2005. 77. N. Liu, F. Bai, J. Yan, B. Zhang, W. Xi, W. Fan, Z. Chen, W. Ma, L. Ji and C. Hu "A similarity reinforcement algorithm for heterogeneous Web pages,” in the Proceeding of Asia Pacific Web Conference, 2005. 78. W. Fan, M. Luo, L. Wang, W. Xi, E.A. Fox, “Tuning before feedback: combining ranking function discovery and blind feedback for robust retrieval,” in the Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, U. K., 2004. 79. W. Fan, M. D. Gordon, P. Pathak, W. Xi and E.A. Fox, “Ranking function optimization for effective web search by Genetic Programming: an empirical study,” in the Proceedings of 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2004. Nominated for the best conference paper. 80. J. Yan, B. Zhang, S. Yan, Z. Chen, W. Fan, Q. Yang, W. Ma and Q. Cheng, “IMMC: Incremental maximum margin criterion,” in the Proceedings of the Tenth ACM SIGKDD Conference, 2004. 81. G. Xue, H. Zeng, Z. Chen, W. Ma, W. Xi, W. Fan and Y. Yu, “Optimizing web search using web click-through data,” in the Proceedings of the 13th ACM CIKM conference, 2004. 82. B. Zhang, M. Goncalves, W. Fan, Y. Chen and E. A. Fox, P. Calado and M. Cristo, “Intelligent fusion of structural and citation-based evidence for text classification,” in the Proceedings of the 13th ACM CIKM conference, 2004. 83. U. Ravindranathan, R. Shen, M. Goncalves, W. Fan, E. A. Fox, and J. W. Flanagan, “Prototyping digital libraries handling heterogeneous data sources - the ETANA-DL case study,” in the Proceedings of the European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2004), Bath, UK, 2004. 84. U. Ravindranathan, R. Shen, M. Goncalves, W. Fan, E. A. Fox, and J. W. Flanagan, “ETANA-DL: a digital library for integrated handling of heterogeneous archaeological data,” in the Proceedings of 2004 ACM-IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). Tucson, AZ, 2004. 85. U. Ravindranathan, R. Shen, M. Goncalves, W. Fan, E. A. Fox, and J. W. Flanagan, “ETANA-DL: managing complex information applications – an archaeology digital library,” Demo, in the Proceedings of 2004 ACM-IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). Tucson, AZ, 2004. 86. L. Wang, W. Fan, R. Yang, W. Xi, M. Luo, Y. Zhou, E.A. Fox, “Ranking function discovery by genetic programming for robust retrieval,” in the Proceedings of the Twelfth TREC Conference, 2003. 87. R. Yang, W. Fan, L. Wang, W. Xi, M. Luo, Y. Zhou, E.A. Fox, “VT at TREC 2003: the web track report,” in the Proceedings of the Twelfth TREC Conference, 2003. 88. H. Wu, M. Gordon, W. Fan, K. Demaagd, “Principal clusters analysis: a statistical analysis of web navigations,” in the Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Barcelona, Spain, December, 2002. 89. H. Wu, D. Radev, H. Qi and W. Fan, “Towards better answer-focused summarization,” in the Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Information Technology & Applications (ICITA), Bathurst, Australia, November, 2002. 90. D. Radev, W. Fan, H. Qi, H. Wu, “Probabilistic question answering from the Web,” with, in the Proceedings of the 11th WWW conference, Hawaii, May, 2002. 91. D. Radev, H. Qi, W. Fan, H. Wu, “Evaluating web-based question answering systems,” in the Proceedings of Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Spain, 2002. 92. D. Radev, H. Qi, Z. Zheng, S. B. Goldensohn, Z. Zhang, W. Fan, J. Prager, “Mining the web for answers to natural language questions,” in the Proceedings of 2001 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Atlanta, Georgia, 2001. 93. D. Radev, W. Fan, Z. Zhang “WebInEssence: A personalized web-based multi-document summarization and recommendation system,” in the Proceedings of NAACL Workshop on Automatic Summarization, Pittsburgh, PA, 2001. 94. W. Fan, M. D. Gordon and P. Pathak, “Personalization of search engine services for effective retrieval and knowledge management,” in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems 2000 (ICIS), 20-34, Brisbane, Australia, 2000. 95. D. Radev, W. Fan, “Automatic summarization of search engine hit lists,” in the Proceedings of ACL'2000 Workshop on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval,” Hong Kong, P. R. China, 2000. 96. P. Pathak, M. D. Gordon, W. Fan, “Effective information retrieval using genetic algorithms based matching function adaptation,” in the Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS), Hawaii, USA, 2000. 97. W. Fan, M. D. Gordon and P. Pathak, “Automatic generation of matching functions by genetic programming for effective information retrieval,” in the Proceedings of the 1999 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Milwaukee, WI, USA, August 13-15, 1999. 98. H. Lu, W. Fan, C. H. Goh, S. Madnick and D. Cheung “Discovering and reconciling semantic conflicts: a data mining perspective,” in the Proceedings of the 7th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Database Semantics (DS-7), Leysin, Switzerland, 1997. Also available as MIT Sloan Business School Working Paper #3957 and MIT 21st Century Initiative Working Paper #18. ——会议报告—— 1. “An expert user ranking algorithm in online communities,” the 2009 International Conference on New Trends in Information and Service Science (NISS 2009), Beijing, China, June 30th – July 2nd, 2009. 2. “From BPR to BPO: A new marketing strategy for outsourcing vendors”, First International Conference on Service Outsourcing (ICSC), Xi’an, P.R. China, Aug. 2-3. 2007. 3. “Spline function smoothed support vector machine for data classification”, 2007 Informs International Meeting, Puerto Rico, July 8-11, 2007. 4. “Unveiling critical success factors for a Web-based knowledge community,” the 16th Biennial Conference for International Telecommunication Society, June 11-16, Beijing, P.R. China, 2006. 5. “Ranking function optimization for effective web search by Genetic Programming: an empirical study,” the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Big Island, Hawaii, 2004. 6. “Personalization of search engine services for effective retrieval and knowledge management,” International Conference on Information Systems 2000 (ICIS), Brisbane, Australia, Dec. 10 –14, 2000. 7. “Automatic generation of matching functions by genetic programming for effective information retrieval,” 1999 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Milwaukee, WI, USA, August 13-15, 1999. ——受邀演讲/报告—— 1. “Applying FACET to Detect Fraudulent Financial Reporting”, KPMG, New York, Aug. 4th, 2009, co-presented with Greg. Jenkins. 2. “Competitive Actions and Dynamics in the Digital Age: An Empirical Investigation of Social Networking Firms”, XiDian University, Xi’an, P.R. China, July 7th, 2009. 3. “Competitive Actions and Dynamics in the Digital Age: An Empirical Investigation of Social Networking Firms”, School of Management, Xi’an Jiaotong University, P.R. China, July 6th, 2009. 4. “Competitive Actions and Dynamics in the Digital Age: An Empirical Investigation of Social Networking Firms”, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 7th, 2009. 5. “Fraud Auditing Through Textual Analysis”, Barclays Global Investors, San Francisco, Oct. 17th, 2008. 6. “Finding authoritative documents in a knowledge-based community”, XiDian University, Xi’an, May 8th, 2008. 7. “Explaining users’ continued usage of social networking service website: An empirical study”, XiDian University, Xi’an, May 8th, 2008. 8. “Explaining users’ continued usage of social networking service website: An empirical study”, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, May 6th, 2008. 9. “Introduction to ranking function discovery by genetic programming”, Tsinghua University, Beijing, April 26th, 2008. 10. “Ranking function discovery by genetic programming, a 10-year update”, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, April 24th, 2008. 11. “Tapping the power of text mining”, INFORMS VT Chapter, Feb. 21st, 2007. 12. “A conceptual model for Web-based knowledge community success”, School of Management, Xi’an Jiaotong University, P.R. China, June 2nd, 2006. 13. “A conceptual model for Web-based knowledge community success”, School of Management, Xi Dian University, June 8th, P.R. China, 2006. 14. “Optimizing Web search ranking functions by genetic programming,” School of Computer Science, Xi Dian University, June 8th, P.R. China, 2006. 15. “Introduction to data mining”, Southwest Virginia Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors, Jan. 10th, 2006. 16. “Optimizing Web search ranking functions by genetic programming,” Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, May 16th, 2005 17. “Optimizing Web search ranking functions by genetic programming,” Intel China Research Center, Beijing, May 17th, 2005 18. “Ranking function optimization by genetic programming,” Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China, May 30th, 2005. ——荣誉和奖项—— Visiting Scholar, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, June 27th - July 4th, 2009. NSF NSDL Large Grant DUE-0840719, Co-PI, 2.5 million (VT portion, $500,000), 09/15/2008-08/31/2010. Visiting Scholar, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, April 19th- 30th, 2008. Faculty Award for Research Excellence, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech, 2008. Google Faculty Summit Fellow, July 26-27, 2007. Mahlon Harrell Research Fellow, Department of Accounting and Information Systems, Virginia Tech, since June, 2007. Virginia Tech Scholar of the Week, April 16 – April 29, 2007. “The Office of the Vice President for Research recognizes information systems and computer science professor Patrick Fan, who studies the efficiency and effectiveness of data mining strategies for search engine optimization and text summarization. His research applies the design and development of novel information technologies --- information retrieval, data mining, text/web mining, personalization and knowledge management techniques --- to support better business information management and decision making for both individuals and organizations. In his short time at Virginia Tech, he has proven to be a prolific scholar, with more than 25 publications in top information systems journals and more than 40 refereed conference proceedings. His work on ranking function discovery for personalized web search results and text-summarization using genetic algorithms and other techniques has been widely cited. His National Science Foundation (NSF) funded work on web-based information extraction and question answering is extending the usefulness of the internet to a broad range of populations.” Warren L. Holtzman Outstanding Educator Award, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech, 2006. Certificate of Teaching Excellence Award, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech, 2005-2006. Department of Accounting and Information Systems Summer Research Grants (merit-based), 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008. Virginia Tech International Travel Grants, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, $1000 each year. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Large Research Grant, PI, 08/01/2007-07/31/2009, “Automated Textual Analysis for Fraud Detection,” $200,000, with Greg Jenkins. NSF CPATH Grant CCF-0722259, Co-PI, 08/01/2007-07/31/2009, “Collaborative Research: CPATH CB: Living In the KnowlEdge Society (LIKES),” $500,000, with Edward Fox, Carlos Evia, Christopher Zobel, Steven Sheetz, Robert Beck (Villanova), Wingyan Chung (UTEP), Edward Carr (NCA&T). NSF SGER Grant IIS-0736055, CO-PI, 08/01/2007-07/31/2008, “SGER: DL-VT416: A Digital Library Testbed for Research Related to 4/16/2007 at Virginia Tech,” $200,000, with Edward Fox, Christopher North, Naren Ramakrishnan, Donald Shoemaker. NSF DUE Grant DUE-0532825, Co-PI, 09/01/2005-08/31/2008, “Personalization of Content: Bridging the Gap between NSDL and Its Users through the Course Website,” $450,000, with Lillian Cassel (Villanova), Edward Fox, Manuel Perez. ——媒体提及—— ACM TechNews on my CACM text mining article http://technews.acm.org/archives.cfm?fo=2006-09-sep/sep-27-2006.html Automatic textual analysis for fraud detection (see VT news) o Newswise Business News o Director of Finance News (U.K.) o The Engineer Online News (U.K.) o Scientific Frontline News o Richmond Times (indexed by LexisNexis, Factiva) o Collegiate Times o American Society for Quality o ID Theft Protect News o Homeland Security Daily Wire News o Chronicle o CFO Magazine (April 2008) o Monterey Wealth Report (also featured in many weekly market commentaries, online blogs, online communities) o Research Milestone News o SmartPros Accounting o Individual.com o StickyMinds.com Competition in social networking services (see VT news) o Pamplin Magazine Fall 2009 o Newswise Business News o Communications of the ACM News o Roanoke Times o LexisNexis News ——研究兴趣领域—— Business Intelligence Financial Statement Fraud Detection Capital Market Research Using Textual Anslysis Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty in e-Services Competitions in the Digital Industry Information Integration Information Retrieval / Text Mining Information System Success Innovation Assessment Knowledge Innovation, Dynamics, and Diffusion in Knowledge Communities Knowledge Discovery / Data Mining Knowledge Management Quality metrics for Information Systems Social Computing Service Computing Customer Intelligence User Behaviors in Web 2.0 ——教学兴趣领域—— Business Data Communications Information System/Technology Auditing Object-Oriented System Development Management Information Systems Business Intelligence and Data Mining Knowledge Management Strategic Information Management E-Commerce/Business Technologies Database Management Systems ——学术任职经历—— Editorial Board Member Journal of Database Management (since June, 2004) Journal of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (since July, 2008)  Guest Editor, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, 2010 May issue. National Science Foundation Panel Review Member REU 2004 IIS 2005, 2007 CDI, 2009 External Review Member for Hong Kong Research Grant Council, 2008, 2009 Ad Hoc Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies (TOIT) ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) Communications of the ACM (CACM) Decision Support Systems (DSS) Data and Knowledge Engineering (D&KE) IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (TEC) IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, Cybernetics (TSAC) Information Systems (IS) Information Sciences (IS) Information Systems Research (ISR) Information Systems Journal (ISJ) Information Processing and Management (IP&M) International Journal of Electronic Commerce (IJEC) Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) Journal of Digital Library (JDL) Journal of Database Management (JDM) Journal of Natural Language Processing (JNLP) Management Information System Quarterly (MISQ) Management Science(MS) International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) Extending Database Technologies (EDBT) Services for International Conferences and Workshops Program committee member of the 2010 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Portland, USA, 2010. Program committee member of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), Beijing, P.R. China, 2010. Program committee member of the 4th International Conference on Information Systems, Technology and Management, Bangkok, Thailand, March10-12th, 2010. Program committee member of the 2009 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2009. Associate Editor of the 2009 International Conference on Information Systems, Phoenix, AZ, 2009. Track Chair of the InfoScale 2008 (The Third International ICST Conference on Scalable Information Systems), Campania, Italy, 2008. Program Committee member of the 3rd International Symposium on Trustworthiness, Reliability and Services in Ubiquitous and Sensor Networks (TRUST-08), Shanghai, China, 2008. Program Committee member of third IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC 2008), Yilan, Taiwan, 2008. Program committee member of the 2008 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 2008. Program committee member of the ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Napa Valley, California, 2008. Program committee member of the ACM 16th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Lisbon, Portugal, 2007. Program committee member of the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007), Salt Lake City, Utah, 2007. Program committee member of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), 2007. Advisory board member, and program committee member of the Pre-ICIS SIG-DSS workshop, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2006. Program committee member of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Washington, DC, 2006. Program committee member of the 2006 International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, Dubai, 2006. Program committee member of the International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL), Kyoto, Japan, 2006. Associate Editor and Program committee member of the 2006 International Conference on Information Systems, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2006. Program committee member of the ACM 15th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Washington, DC, 2006. Program committee member of the 9th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Guilin, China, 2006. Program committee member of the 3rd Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2006), Singapore, 2006. Program committee member of the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), 2006. Program committee member of the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2006), Chicago, 2006. Program committee member of the HLT-NAACL 2006 Conference, New York, 2006. Program committee member of the ICCSA'2006 Workshop on Visual Computing and Multimedia, Scotland, 2006. Program committee member of the 2005 International Conference on Information Systems, Las Vegas, 2005. Program committee member of the 15th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), Las Vegas, 2005. Program committee member of the International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL), Bangkok, Thailand, 2005. Program committee member of the 14th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), Washington D.C. 2004. Member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (since June, 2004). ——学院/系任职经历—— MBA advisory committee, 2009-2010 ACIS department research committee member (since July, 2002) ACIS department academic program committee (since July, 2002) Faculty advisor, information system option (since July, 2002) Faculty advisor board member for Information Systems Society (since July, 2002) Faculty advisor for Asian Chinese Association (2004-2005) Faculty advisor for Beta Alpha Psi (2005-2006) Faculty advisor for Information Systems Society (2006-now) CS department faculty search committee (2004) Faculty advisor for Upward Bound Program at VT (2007) - advising one high school student Ellie Trump from Christiansburg High School, VA. ——已指导/现指导学生—— Ph.D. students Lemuria Carter (ACIS) (Graduated in 2006, Now at Mississippi State Univ.) Yuxin Chen (CS) (Graduated in 2007. Now at Microsoft) (David) Jing Dai (CS) Boby George (CS) Marcos Andre Goncalves (CS) (Graduated in 2005. Now at UFMG, Brazil) Jian Jiao (CS) Seonho Kim (CS) Hui Lin (ACIS) (Graduated in 2008. Now at DePaul Univ.) Bing Liu (CS) (Now at Google) Pengbo Liu (CS) (Now at Ebay) Xiaomo Liu (CS) James Long (ACIS) (Now at Auburn Univ.) Ming Luo (CS) (Now at Yahoo) Yi Ma (CS) Michele Meckfessel (ACIS) James Penner (ACIS) Christian Schaupp (ACIS) (Graduated in 2005. Now at WVU) Rao Shen (CS) (Graduated in 2006. Now at Yahoo) Wensi Xi (CS) (Graduated in 2006. Now at Google) Xiaoyan Yu (CS) (Now at MicroStrategy) Baoping Zhang (CS) (Graduated in 2006. Now at Microsoft) Master Students Yi Cao (CS) (Now at Seagate) Li Wang (now at BGI) Doug Gordon (CS) Rohit Kelapure (CS) (Now at IBM) V. Vikram Raj (CS) (Now at Microsoft) Unni Ravindranathan (CS) (Now at Microsoft) Johnny L.S. Rajkumar (CS) (Now at Microsoft) Srinivas Vemuri (CS) (Now at Microsoft) Ye Zhou (Now at Google) Haibei Zhao (ACIS) Xiaoyu Zhang (CS) (Now at IBM) Undergraduate Students Stephanie Rich (CS) (Now at Vanguard) 最后更新日期： 01/11/2010

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