Also see my publication and citation information from DBLP, Google Scholar, ACM DL

E-Business Success / Metrics
  1. H. Lin, W. Fan, Z. Zhang, "Towards a conceptual model for knowledge community success: a qualitative study,", forthcoming, International Journal of e-Collaboration, 23 pages, 2008.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. F. Belanger, W. Fan, C. Schaupp, J. Everhart, D. Poteet, A. Krishen, K. Nakamoto, "Website success metrics: addressing the duality of goals," Communications of ACM, 49(12), 114-116, 2006.

Web Mining, Link Analysis and Knowledge Management 

  1. D. Roussinov, W. Fan, J. Robles, "Beyond keywords: Automated question answering on the Web", Communications of the ACM, 51(9), 60-65, 2008.
  2. 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.
  3. W. Fan, M. D. Gordon, P. Pathak, On linear mixture of experts approach to information retrieval,Decision Support Systems, 42(2), 975-987, 2006.
  4. W. Fan, L. Wallace, S. Rich and Z. Zhang, Tapping the power of text mining,Communications of the ACM, 49(9), 76-82, 2006.
  5. W. Fan, M. D. Gordon, P. Pathak, An integrated two-stage model for intelligent information routing, Decision Support Systems, 42(1), 362-374, 2006.
  6. 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.
  7. M. D. Gordon, W. Fan, P. Pathak, Adaptive Web search: evolving a program that finds information,IEEE Intelligent Systems, 21(5), 72-77, 2006.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. J. Yan, B. Zhang, N. Liu, S. Yan, Q. Cheng, W. Fan, Q. Yang, W. Xi, Z. Chen, “Effective and efficient dimension reduction for large scale streaming data preprocessing", 18(3), 320-333, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2006.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. D. Roussinov, W. Fan, “Learning global and local weighting for information retrieval", in the Proceedings of 2005 HLT/EMNLP Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2005.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. M. D. Gordon, W. Fan, P. Pathak, Adaptive Web search: evolving a program that finds information, 15 pages, accepted at IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2005.
  22. M. D. Gordon, W. Fan and H. Wu, Sharing and identifying key documents within an online community, 14 pages, revise and resubmit at Communications of ACM, 2005.
  23. W. Fan, P. Pathak, A framework for use of genetic based approaches in ranking function discovery and optimization in information retrieval, accepted with minor revision, European Journal of Operational Research, 27 pages, 2005.
  24. 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 (JASIST), 56(6), 571-583, 2005.
  25. 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), pp. 37-56, 2005.
  26. 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.
  27. W. Fan, E. A. 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 (JASIST), 55(7), 628-636, 2004.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
  31. W. Fan, M. D. Gordon,  P. Pathak, Discovery of context-specific ranking functions for effective information retrieval using genetic programming, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 16(4), 523-527, 2004.
  32. H. Wu and W. Fan, E-health communities: scalability challenges to information management, to appear in E-Health Paradigm Shift: Perspectives, Domains and Cases, John Wiley, 2004.
  33.  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.
  34. 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.
  35. 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.
  36. H. Wu, M. Gordon, W. Fan, K. Demaagd, Mining web navigations for intelligence, accepted for publication, Decision Support Systems, 2004.
  37. 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), 2003.
  38. M.D. Gordon, R. Lindsay, W. Fan. Literature-based discovery on the WWW, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT),2(4), 262-275, 2002.
  39. H. Wu, M. Gordon, W. Fan. Principal clusters analysis: a statistical analysis of web navigations, in the Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Barcelona, Spain, 2002.

Information Retriveal, Text Mining
  1. D. Roussinov,W. Fan, J. Robles, “Beyond keywords: Automated question answering on the Web," Communications of the ACM, 51(9), 60-65, 2008.
  2. W. Fan, L. Wallace, S. Rich and Z. Zhang, Tapping the power of text mining,Communications of the ACM, 49(9), 76-82, 2006.
  3. 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.
  4. W. Fan, M. D. Gordon, P. Pathak, On linear mixture of experts approach to information retrieval,Decision Support Systems, 42(2), 975-987, 2006.
  5. W. Fan, M. D. Gordon, P. Pathak, An integrated two-stage model for intelligent information routing,", em> Decision Support Systems, 42(1), 362-374, 2006.
  6. 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.
  7. M. D. Gordon, W. Fan, P. Pathak, “Adaptive Web search: evolving a program that finds information,IEEE Intelligent Systems, 21(5), 72-77, 2006.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. J. Yan, B. Zhang, N. Liu, S. Yan, Q. Cheng, W. Fan, Q. Yang, W. Xi, Z. Chen, “Effective and efficient dimension reduction for large scale streaming data preprocessing", 18(3), 320-333, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2006.
  11. 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.
  12. D. Roussinov, W. Fan, “Learning global and local weighting for information retrieval", in the Proceedings of 2005 HLT/EMNLP Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2005.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. M. D. Gordon, W. Fan, P. Pathak, “Adaptive web search: evolving a program that finds information", 15 pages, accepted at IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2005.
  21. M. D. Gordon, W. Fan and H. Wu, “Sharing and identifying key documents within an online community", 14 pages, revise and resubmit at Communications of ACM, 2005.
  22. W. Fan, P. Pathak, A framework for use of genetic based approaches in ranking function discovery and optimization in information retrieval, accepted with minor revision, European Journal of Operational Research, 27 pages, 2004.
  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), pp. 37-56, 2005.
  24. 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.
  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 (JASIST), 56(6), 571-583, 2005.
  26.  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.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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. Tucson, AZ, 2004.
  31. 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. Tucson, AZ, 2004.
  32. H. Wu, M. Gordon, W. Fan, K. Demaagd, Mining web navigations for intelligence, accepted for publication, Decision Support Systems, 2004.
  33. W. Fan, E. A. 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 (JASIST), 55(7), 628-636, 2004.
  34. H. Wu, D. R. Radev, W. Fan, Towards answer-focused summarization using search engines, in New Directions in Question Answering, Mark Maybury, editor, AAAI/MIT Press, 2004.
  35. 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.
  36. 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.
  37. 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.
  38. W. Fan, M.D. Gordon,  P. Pathak, Discovery of context-specific ranking functions for effective information retrieval using genetic programming, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 16(4), 523-527, 2004.
  39. M.D. Gordon, R. Lindsay, W. Fan. Literature-based discovery on the WWW, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT),2(4), 262-275, 2002.
  40. D.R. Radev, W. Fan, and H. Qi,  H. Wu. Probabilistic question answering from the web, in the Proceedings of the 11th WWW conference, Hawaii, May 2002.
  41. D.R. Radev, H. Qi, H. Wu, W. Fan. Evaluating web-based question answering systems, in the Proceedings of Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Spain, 2002.
  42. D.R. Radev, K. Libner, and 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
  43. D.R. Radev, W. Fan, H. Qi, Z. Zheng, S. B. Goldensohn, Z. Zhang and 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.
  44. D.R. Radev, W. Fan, and 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.
  45. W. Fan, M.D. Gordon,  P. Pathak, Personalization of search engine services for effective retrieval and knowledge management, in the Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2000, Brisbane, Australia.
  46. 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 , 2000, Hong Kong, P. R. China.
  47. 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), 2000, Hawaii, USA.
  48. W. Fan, M. D. Gordon, 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 , August 13-15, 1999, Milwaukee, WI, USA. 

Data Mining 

  1. 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, forthcoming, Pattern Recognition, 2008.
  2. W. Fan, L. Wallace, S. Rich and Z. Zhang, Tapping the power of text mining,Communications of the ACM, 49(9), 76-82, 2006.
  3. J. Yan, B. Zhang, N. Liu, S. Yan, Q. Cheng, W. Fan, Q. Yang, W. Xi, Z. Chen, “Effective and efficient dimension reduction for large scale streaming data preprocessing", forthcoming, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2006.
  4. 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.
  5. D. Roussinov, W. Fan, “Learning global and local weighting for information retrieval", in the Proceedings of 2005 HLT/EMNLP Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2005.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. M. D. Gordon, W. Fan, P. Pathak, “Adaptive web search: evolving a program that finds information", 15 pages, accepted at IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2005.
  14. M. D. Gordon, W. Fan and H. Wu, “Sharing and identifying key documents within an online community", 14 pages, revise and resubmit at Communications of ACM, 2005.
  15. Y. Yuan, C. Xu, W. Fan, A polynomial smooth support vector machine for classification, Journal of Classification, in press, 2004.
  16. W. Fan, M.D. Gordon,  P. Pathak, Discovery of Context-Specific Ranking Functions for Effective Information Retrieval Using Genetic Programming, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 16(4), 523-527, 2004.
  17. W. Fan, H. Lu, S.E. Madnick, D.W. Cheung. DIRECT: a system for mining data value conversion rules from disparate sources, Decision Support Systems, 34(1), 19-39, 2002. 
  18. W. Fan, H. Lu, S.E. Madnick, D.W. Cheung. Discovering and reconciling data value conflicts for numerical data integration, Information Systems, 26(8), 635-656, 2001.
  19. M.D. Gordon, R. Lindsay, W. Fan. Literature-based discovery on the WWW, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT),in press, 2002.
  20. H. Lu, W. Fan, C.H. Goh, S.E. Madnick, D.W. Cheung. Discovering and reconciling semantic conflicts: a data mining perspective, in the Proceedings of the 7th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Data Semantics(DS-7), Leysin, Switzerland, 1997. Also available as MIT Sloan Business School Working Paper #3957 and MIT 21st Century Initiative Working Paper #18.
  21. H. Lu, W. Fan, C.H. Goh, S.E. Madnick, D.W. Cheung. A data mining approach to resolving conflicts in legacy information systems, MIT Sloan Business School Working Paper #3999 and MIT 21st Century Initiative Working Paper #23. 

Information Integration

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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. Tucson, AZ, 2004.
  9. 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. Tucson, AZ, 2004.
  10. D. Radev, W. Fan, H. Qi, H. Wu, A. Grewal, Probabilistic question answering on the web, accepted for publication, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 56(6), 571-583, 2005..
  11. W. Fan, H. Lu, S.E. Madnick, D.W. Cheung,DIRECT: a system for mining data value conversion rules from disparate sources, Decision Support Systems, 34(1), 19-39, 2002. 
  12. W. Fan, H. Lu, S.E. Madnick, D.W. Cheung, Discovering and reconciling data value conflicts for numerical data integration, Information Systems, 26(8), 635-656, 2001.
  13. H. Lu, W. Fan, C.H. Goh, S.E. Madnick, D.W. Cheung, Discovering and reconciling semantic conflicts: a data mining perspective, in the Proceedings of the 7th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Data Semantics(DS-7), Leysin, Switzerland, 1997. Also available as MIT Sloan Business School Working Paper #3957 and MIT 21st Century Initiative Working Paper #18.
  14. H. Lu, W. Fan, C.H. Goh, S.E. Madnick, D.W. Cheung, A data mining approach to resolving conflicts in legacy information systems, MIT Sloan Business School Working Paper #3999 and MIT 21st Century Initiative Working Paper #23. 

Operations Research/Decision Support

  1. Z. Zhang, W. Fan, “Web server load balancing: A queueing analysis,European Journal of Operational Research, 186(2), 681-693, 2008.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. W. Fan, H. Lu, S.E. Madnick, D.W. Cheung. DIRECT: a system for mining data value conversion rules from disparate sources, Decision Support Systems, 34(1), 19-39, 2002. 
  5. K.H. Phua, D.H. Ming, W. Fan, Y. Zeng, Parallel algorithms for solving large-scale nonlinear optimization, Optimization Methods and Applications, pp. 279-293, 2001.  
  6. K.H. Phua, W. Fan, Y. Zeng, Parallel algorithms for large-scale nonlinear optimization, Journal of International Transactions in Operational Research(ITOR), Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 67-77, 1998. 
  7. K.H. Phua, D. Ming, W. Fan, Y. Zhang, Numerical experience with parallel nonlinear optimization algorithms, Proceedings of the Tenth IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS98) pp. 158-161, October 28-31, 1998, Las Vegas, USA. 
  8. K.H. Phua, D. Ming, W. Fan, Y. Zhang, Vectorization and parallization of nonlinear optimization algorithms, Proceedings of the Third High Performance Computing Asia Conference(HPC'ASIA), pp. 1389-1398, Sept. 23-25, 1998, Singapore. 
  9. K.H. Phua, W. Fan, Y. Zeng, Self-scaling parallel quasi-Newton methods, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications(ICOTA98), Volume I, pp. 526-531, 1998. (An extended version can be found here).
  10. K.H. Phua, W. Fan, Y. Zeng, Parallel algorithms for large-scale nonlinear optimization, Invited Talk at SIAM 45th Anniversary Meeting, Stanford University, 1997. 
  11. K.H, Phua, W. Fan, Y. Zeng, Parallel algorithms for large-scale nonlinear optimization. Technical Report TR22/96, Department of Information Systems & Computer Science, National University of Singapore, 1996 .
  12. K.H, Phua, W. Fan, D. Ming, Parallel algorithms for solving large-scale nonlinear optimization problems. Technical Report, Department of Information Systems & Computer Science, National University of Singapore, 1997 . 
  13. K.H. Phua and W. Fan, a new self-scaling parallel quasi-Newton methods for nonlinear unconstrained optimization, Technical Report, Department of Information Systems & Computer Science, National University of Singapore, 1997. 
  14. K.H. Phua, W. Fan, D. Ming, Parallel algorithms for large-scale nonlinear unconstrained optimization, CRAYQuest Singapore 1997 Competition Report, Jointly Organized by National Supercomputing Research Center , CRAY Research/Silicon Graphics, IEEE, National Computer Board , National Science & Technology Board, Nanyang Technological University , National University of Singapore, 1997. 
  15. W. Fan, Self-Scaling Parallel Algorithms for Nonlinear Unconstrained Optimization, Master's Thesis, National University of Singapore, 1997.


 
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