Publications by Brian D. Davison

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Patents, books, proceedings, and book chapters

W. Sun, P. Bocchini, and B.D. Davison. (2022) Quantitative models for interdependent functionality and recovery of critical infrastructure systems. In M. Ettouney (ed.), Objective Resilience: Objective Processes, MOP 147, Chapter 4, American Society of Civil Engineers, April. DOI: 10.1061/9780784415894.ch4
K. Collins-Thompson, Q. Mei, B.D. Davison, Y. Liu, and E. Yilmaz (eds). (2018) Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval. ACM Press, July.
B.D. Davison, T. Suel, N. Craswell, and B. Liu (eds). (2010) Proceedings of the Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. ACM Press, February.
G. M. Weiss and B.D. Davison. (2010) Data Mining. In H. Bidgoli (ed.), Handbook of Technology Management, John Wiley and Sons, Volume II, Chapter 39, January.
S.L. Goldman, R.N. Nagel, B.D. Davison, and P.D. Schmid. (2009) Next Generation Agility: Smart Business and Smart Communities. In P.H.M. Vervest, D.W. van Liere, and L. Zheng (eds.), The Network Experience: New Value from Smart Business Networks, Chapter 4, pp. 49-55. Springer-Verlag.
C. Castillo, B.D. Davison, L. Denoyer and P. Gallinari (eds). (2007) Proceedings of the Graph Labelling Workshop and Web Spam Challenge (GRAPHLAB). Held at ECML/PKDD, Warsaw, Poland, September.
C. Castillo, K. Chellapilla, and B.D. Davison (eds). (2007) Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb). ACM Press, May.
B.D. Davison, M. Najork, and T. Converse (eds). (2006) Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web. Technical Report LU-CSE-06-027, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.
B.D. Davison (ed). (2005) Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web. Technical Report LU-CSE-05-030, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.
A. Kontostathis, W.M. Pottenger, and B.D. Davison. (2005) Identification of Critical Values in Latent Semantic Indexing. In T. Y. Lin, S. Ohsuga, C.-J. Liau, X. T. Hu, and S. Tsumoto (eds.) Foundations of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Springer-Verlag, pages 333-346.
F. Douglis and B.D. Davison (eds). (2004) Web Content Caching and Distribution: Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop. Kluwer, June.
B.D. Davison. (2004) Learning Web Request Patterns. In M. Levene and A. Poulovassilis (eds), Web Dynamics: Adapting to Change in Content, Size, Topology and Use, Springer, pages 435-459.
L. Steinberg, J. S. Hall, and B.D. Davison. (2002) Method of producing optimized designs using computer systems and designs produced therefrom. United States Patent 6,367,052. Issued 2 April 2002.

Peer reviewed journal, conference, and workshop papers

J. Yu, X. Liu, J. Huang, C. Luo, J. Huang, R. Zhou, Y. Liu, J. Hu, J. Chen, K. Zhang, D. Zhang, Y. Shen, E. Adhikarla, Y. Dai, K. Zhang, Z. Kong, W. Ye, Y. Yin, V. Namboodiri, B.D. Davison, J.H. Moore, Y. Chen. (2025) Multitask Learning 1997-2024: Part I Fundamentals. Harvard Data Science Review 7(3), July 2025. DOI: 10.1162/99608f92.462f48a2
X. Liu, J. Yu, Y. Dai, Y. Shen, J. Chen, J. Hu, J. Huang, Y. Liu, Y. Yin, V. Namboodiri, B.D. Davison, J.H. Moore, Y. Chen. (2025) Multitask Learning 1997-2024: Part II Regularization and Optimization. Harvard Data Science Review 7(3), July 2025. DOI: 10.1162/99608f92.03dd064a
J. Yu, J. Huang, K. Zhang, Y. Liu, K. Zhang, Y. Shen, D. Zhang, R. Zhou, X. Liu, Y. Yin, V. Namboodiri, B.D. Davison, J.H. Moore, Y. Chen. (2025) Multitask Learning 1997-2024: Part III Applications. Harvard Data Science Review 7(3), July 2025. DOI: 10.1162/99608f92.ca91645f
E. Adhikarla, K. Zhang, R.G. VidalMata, M. Aithal, N.A. Madhusudhana, J. Nicholson, L. Sun, B.D. Davison. (2024) Unified-EGformer: Exposure Guided Lightweight Transformer for Mixed-Exposure Image Enhancement. In Proceedings of 27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2024), pages 260-275, LNCS 15329, Kolkata, India, December. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-78110-0_17. Earlier version available on arXiv:2407.13170.
K. Zhang, R. Zhou, E. Adhikarla, Z. Yan, Y. Liu, J. Yu, Z. Liu, X. Chen, B.D. Davison, H. Ren, J. Huang, C. Chen, Y. Zhou, S. FuI, W. Liu, T. Liu, X. Li, Y. Chen, L. He, J. Zou, Q. Li, H. Liu, and L. Sun. (2024) A Generalist Vision-Language Foundation Model for Diverse Biomedical Tasks. Nature Medicine, Nature Portfolio, 2024. DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-03185-2. Earlier version available on arxiv:2305.17100.
E. Adhikarla, K. Zhang, J. Nicholson, and B.D. Davison. (2024) ExpoMamba: Exploiting Frequency SSM Blocks for Efficient and Effective Image Enhancement. Presented at the ICML 2024 Workshop: ES-FoMo II: 2nd Workshop on Efficient Systems for Foundation Models, Vienna, Austria, July. Also available on arXiv:2408.09650
D. Luo, L. Zou, Q. Ai, Z. Chen, C. Li, D. Yin, and B.D. Davison. (2024) Unbiased Learning-to-Rank Needs Unconfounded Propensity Estimation. In Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 1535-1545, Washington, DC, July. DOI: 10.1145/3626772.3657772.
Y. Zhang and B.D. Davison. (2023) Deep Feature Registration for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Digital Data Processing (DDP), Luton, UK, November. Preprint available via arXiv:2310.16100.
D. Luo, L. Zou, Q. Ai, Z. Chen, D. Yin, and B.D. Davison. (2023) Model-based Unbiased Learning to Rank. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), pages 895-903, Singapore, February. DOI: 10.1145/3539597.3570395. Also arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.02595.
H. Jia, L. Miller, J. Hicks, E. Moscot, A. Landberg, J. Heflin, and B.D. Davison. (2022) Truth in a Sea of Data: Adoption and Use of Data Search Tools among Researchers and Journalists. Information, Communication and Society, 26(16): 3239-3258. Taylor & Francis, November. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2022.2147398
M. Trabelsi, Z. Chen, S. Zhang, B.D. Davison, and J. Heflin. (2022) StruBERT: Structure-aware BERT for Table Search and Matching. In the Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022, pages 442-451, April. DOI: 10.1145/3485447.3511972
O. Dan, V. Parikh and B.D. Davison. (2022) IP Geolocation through Geographic Clicks. ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems, 8(1):No 2, March. DOI: 10.1145/3476774
W. Sun, P. Bocchini and B.D. Davison. (2022) Overview of Interdependency Models of Critical Infrastructure for Resilience Assessment. Natural Hazards Review, 23(1), February. (Online December 2021). ASCE. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000535.
O. Dan, V. Parikh and B.D. Davison. (2022) IP Geolocation through Reverse DNS. Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), 22(1):17, ACM, February. (Online October 2021.) DOI: 10.1145/3457611.
M. Trabelsi, Z. Chen, B.D. Davison, and J. Heflin. (2021) Neural Ranking Models for Document Retrieval. Information Retrieval Journal 24(6):400-444, December. (Online October 2021.) DOI: 10.1007/s10791-021-09398-0
Y. Zhang and B.D. Davison. (2021) Deep Least Squares Alignment for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation. In Proceedings of the 32nd British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), November.
Z. Chen, M. Trabelsi, J. Heflin, D. Yin and B.D. Davison. (2021) MGNETS: Multi-Graph Neural Networks for Table Search. In Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), online, pages 2945-2949, November. DOI: 10.1145/3459637.3482140
Y. Zhang, B.D. Davison, V. W. Talghader, Z. Chen, Z. Xiao, and G. J. Kunkel. (2021) Automatic Head Overcoat Thickness Measure with NASNet-Large-Decoder Net. In Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC), Vol. 2, pages 159-176, October. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Vol 359. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-89880-9_12
E. Adhikarla and B.D. Davison. (2021) Face Mask Detection on Real-World Webcam Images. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT), pages 139-144, September. DOI: 10.1145/3462203.3475903
J. Heflin, B.D. Davison, and H. Jia. (2021) Exploring Datasets via Cell-Centric Indexing. In Proceedings of DESIRES 2021: The Second International Conference on Design of Experimental Search and Information REtrieval Systems, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Volume 2950, pp. 53-60, Padua, Italy, September.
Y. Zhang and B.D. Davison. (2021) Enhanced Separable Disentanglement for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), September.
Z. Chen, S. Zhang, and B.D. Davison. (2021) WTR: A Test Collection for Web Table Retrieval. In Proceedings of 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 2514-2520, July. DOI: 10.1145/3404835.3463260.
Y. Zhang and B.D. Davison. (2021) Correlated Adversarial Joint Discrepancy Adaptation Network. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), June. DOI: 10.1109/CBMI50038.2021.9461907.
Y. Zhang and B.D. Davison. (2021) Efficient Pre-trained Features and Recurrent Pseudo-Labeling in Unsupervised Domain Adaptation. Presented at the CVPR 2021 workshop on Learning from Limited and Imperfect Data (L2ID). In Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), pages 2719-2728, June.
Y. Zhang and B.D. Davison. (2021) Deep Spherical Manifold Gaussian Kernel for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation. Presented at the 6th IEEE CVPR International Workshop on Differential Geometry in Computer Vision and Machine Learning (DiffCVML). In Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), pages 4443-4452, June.
Y. Zhang and B.D. Davison. (2021) Adversarial Regression Learning for Bone Age Estimation. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI), pages 742-754, June. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12729. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-78191-0_57
W. Sun, P. Bocchini and B.D. Davison. (2021) Interdependency models for resilience analysis of transportation networks. In Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Life-Cycle Sustainability and Innovations, H. Yakota and D.M. Frangopol, eds., pages 2108-2116. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2020), Sapporo, Japan, 9 pages, April. DOI: 10.1201/9780429279119-286.
W. Wang, F. Xia, J. Wu, Z. Gong, H. Tong, and B.D. Davison. (2021) Scholar2vec: Vector Representation of Scholars for Lifetime Collaborator Prediction. Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 15(3):40, 19 pages. ACM, April. DOI: 10.1145/3442199.
O. Dan, V. Parikh and B.D. Davison. (2021) IP Geolocation using Traceroute Location Propagation and IP Range Location Interpolation. In Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference, pages 332-338. Presented at 11th International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb), co-located with The Web Conference, April.
W. Sun, P. Bocchini and B.D. Davison. (2021) Policy-based disaster recovery planning model for interdependent infrastructure systems under uncertainty. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 17(4):555-578. Taylor and Francis. DOI: 10.1080/15732479.2020.1843504.
Y. Zhang and B.D. Davison. (2021) Adversarial Continuous Learning in Unsupervised Domain Adaptation. In Pattern Recognition. Proceedings of ICPR International Workshops and Challenges, Part II, LNCS 12662, pages 672-687, Springer. Presented at The Third International Workshop on Deep Learning for Pattern Recognition (DLPR20), held in conjunction with ICPR 2020, January.
Y. Zhang, H. Ye, and B.D. Davison. (2021) Adversarial Reinforcement Learning for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation. In Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2021), pages 635-644, January. DOI: 10.1109/WACV48630.2021.00068.
M. Trabelsi, Z. Chen, B.D. Davison, and J. Heflin. (2020) A Hybrid Deep Model for Learning to Rank Data Tables. In Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2020), pages 979-986, December. DOI: 10.1109/BigData50022.2020.9378185.
M. Trabelsi, Z. Chen, B.D. Davison, and J. Heflin. (2020) Relational Graph Embeddings for Table Retrieval. In the Seventh International Workshop on High Performance Big Graph Data Management, Analysis, and Mining (BigGraphs 2020), pages 3005-3014, held with IEEE BigData 2020, December. DOI: 10.1109/BigData50022.2020.9378239.
D. Johnson, K. Register, B.D. Davison, and J. Heflin. (2020) An Exploratory Interface for Dataset Repositories Using Cell-Centric Indexing. Poster paper in Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2020), pp. 5716-5718, December. DOI: 10.1109/BigData50022.2020.9378057.
Z. Chen, M. Trabelsi, B.D. Davison, and J. Heflin. (2020) Towards Knowledge Acquisition of Metadata on AI Progress. In Proceedings of the ISWC 2020 Demos and Industry Tracks: From Novel Ideas to Industrial Practice, co-located with the 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 2721, pp. 232-237, November.
L. Qiu, H. Jia, B.D. Davison, and J. Heflin. (2020) An Architecture for Cell-Centric Indexing of Datasets. In Joint Proceedings of Workshops AI4LEGAL2020, NLIWOD, PROFILES 2020, QuWeDa 2020 and SEMIFORM2020, Colocated with the 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Volume 2722, pages 82-96. Presented at PROFILES'20: 7th International Workshop on Dataset PROFILing and Search, November.
Y. Zhang and B.D. Davison. (2020) Domain adaptation for object recognition using subspace sampling demons. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 80: 23255-23274. Springer, June 2021. DOI: 10.1007/s11042-020-09336-0.
Z. Chen, M. Trabelsi, J. Heflin, Y. Xu, and B.D. Davison. (2020) Table Search Using a Deep Contextualized Language Model. In Proceedings of 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 589-598, July.
W. Sun, P. Bocchini and B.D. Davison. (2020) Applications of artificial intelligence for disaster management. Natural Hazards, 103: 2631-2689, July. DOI: 10.1007/s11069-020-04124-3.
H. Ye, Z. Chen, D.-H. Wang, and B.D. Davison. (2020) Pretrained Generalized Autoregressive Model with Adaptive Probabilistic Label Clusters for Extreme Multi-label Text Classification. In Proceedings of 37th International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR 119: 10809-10819, July.
W. Sun, P. Bocchini and B.D. Davison. (2020) Model for estimating the impact of interdependencies on system recovery, Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 26(3), September. ASCE, DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)IS.1943-555X.0000569.
Z. Chen, H. Jia, J. Heflin, and B.D. Davison. (2020) Leveraging Schema Labels to Enhance Dataset Search. In Proceedings of the 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2020), pages 267-280, April.
W. Sun, P. Bocchini and B.D. Davison. (2020) Resilience metrics and measurement methods for transportation infrastructure: the state of the art, Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 5(3):168-199. Taylor & Francis, DOI: 10.1080/23789689.2018.1448663.
Y. Zhang and B.D. Davison. (2020) Impact of ImageNet Model Selection on Domain Adaptation. In Proceedings of the WACV Workshops 2020, pages 173-182. Presented at the Neural Architecture Search for Computer Vision in the Wild (NASFW) Workshop, Snowmass Village, CO, March.
S. Kuang and B.D. Davison. (2020) Learning Class-specific Word Embeddings. Journal of Supercomputing, 76:8265-8292. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-019-03024-z
M. Trabelsi, B.D. Davison, and J. Heflin. (2019) Improved Table Retrieval Using Multiple Context Embeddings for Attributes. In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), pages 1238-1244, Los Angeles, CA, December.
Y. Zhang and B.D. Davison. (2019) ShapeNet: Age-focused Landmark Shape Prediction with Regressive CNN. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2019), Dublin, Ireland, September.
Y. Zhang, S. Xie and B.D. Davison. (2019) Transductive Learning Via Improved Geodesic Sampling. In Proceedings of the 30th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2019), Cardiff, UK, September.
W. Sun, P. Bocchini and B.D. Davison. (2019) Comparing decision models for disaster restoration of interdependent infrastructures under uncertainty, In Proceedings of The 13th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP13). Seoul, South Korea, May.
O. Dan, V. Parikh and B.D. Davison. (2018) Distributed Reverse DNS Geolocation. In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), pages 1581-1586, Seattle, WA, December.
Y. Yi, Z. Chen, J. Heflin and B.D. Davison. (2018) Recognizing Quantity Names for Tabular Data. In Joint Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Professional Search (ProfS2018); the Second Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Semantics for Text Retrieval, Analysis, and Understanding (KG4IR); and the International Workshop on Data Search (DATA:SEARCH'18), pages 68-73. Presented at the International Workshop on Data Search (DATA:SEARCH'18). Co-located with SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, July.
Z. Chen, H. Jia, J. Heflin and B.D. Davison. (2018) Generating Schema Labels through Dataset Content Analysis. In Companion Proceedings of the The Web Conference (WWW '18), pages 1515-1522. Presented at the International Workshop on Profiling and Searching Data on the Web (Profiles & Data:Search'18, co-located with The Web Conference), Lyon, France, April. Best paper award.
S. Kuang and B.D. Davison. (2018) Class-specific Word Embedding through Linear Compositionality. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp), pages 390-397, Shanghai, China, January. An earlier version was presented at the International Workshop on Mining Actionable Insights from Social Networks (MAISoN'17), Cambridge, UK, February 2017.
S. Kuang and B.D. Davison. (2018) Numeric-attribute-powered Sentence Embedding. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp), pages 623-626, Shanghai, China, January.
S. Kuang and B.D. Davison. (2017) Learning Word Embeddings with Chi-Square Weights for Healthcare Tweet Classification. Applied Sciences, Volume 7, Issue 8, Article 846, 12 pages. MDPI, August. DOI: 10.3390/app7080846
O. Dan and B.D. Davison. (2016) Measuring and Predicting Search Engine Users' Satisfaction. ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 49, Issue 1, Article 18, 35 pages, July. DOI: 10.1145/2893486
S. Kuang and B.D. Davison. (2016) Semantic and Context-aware Linguistic Model for Bias Detection. In Proceedings of the Natural Language Processing meets Journalism IJCAI-16 Workshop, pages 57-62, New York City, July 10.
O. Dan, V. Parikh and B.D. Davison. (2016) Improving IP Geolocation using Query Logs. In Proceedings of the 9th Annual ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), pages 347-356, San Francisco, CA, February.
Z. Yang, L. Hong, D. Yin and B.D. Davison. (2015) Ranking Authors with Learning-to-Rank Topic Modeling. In International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control (IJICIC), 11(4):1295-1316, August. DOI: 10.24507/ijicic.11.04.1295
Z. Yang, D. Yin and B.D. Davison. (2014) Recommendation in Academia: a Joint Multi-Relational Model. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), pages 566-571, Beijing, China, August.
D. Yin, S. Mei, B. Cao, J.-T. Sun, and B.D. Davison. (2014) Exploiting Contextual Factors for Click Modeling in Sponsored Search. In Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), pages 113-122, New York City, NY, February.
D. Yin, B. Cao, J.-T. Sun, and B.D. Davison. (2014) Estimating Ad Group Performance in Sponsored Search. In Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), pages 143-152, New York City, NY, February.
Z. Yang, L. Hong and B.D. Davison. (2013) Academic Network Analysis: A Joint Topic Modeling Approach. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), pages 324-333, Niagara Falls, Canada, August. DOI: 10.1109/ASONAM.2013.6785727.
L. Hong, A. Doumith, and B.D. Davison. (2013) Co-Factorization Machines: Modeling User Interests and Predicting Individual Decisions in Twitter. In Proceedings of the 6th Annual ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), pages 557-566, Rome, Italy, February. Finalist for best paper award.
D. Yin, S. Guo, B. Chidlovskii, B.D. Davison, C. Archambeau and G. Bouchard. (2013) Connecting Comments and Tags: Improved Modeling of Social Tagging Systems. In Proceedings of the 6th Annual ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), pages 547-556, Rome, Italy, February.
Z. Yang and B.D. Davison. (2012) Writing with Style: Venue Classification. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), pages 250-255, Boca Raton, FL, December.
Z. Yang and B.D. Davison. (2012) Venue Recommendation: Submitting your Paper with Style. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), pages 681-686, Boca Raton, FL, December.
L. Hong, A. Doumith, and B.D. Davison. (2012) Personalized Retweet Prediction in Twitter. Presented at the Fourth Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN), NYU, New York City, September.
L. Hong, R. Bekkerman, J. Adler, and B.D. Davison. (2012) Learning to Rank Social Update Streams. In Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 651-660, Portland, OR, August.
Z. Yang and B.D. Davison. (2012) Distinguishing Venues by Writing Styles. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), pages 371-372, Washington, DC, June.
N. Dai and B.D. Davison. (2011) Topic-Sensitive Search Engine Evaluation. Online Information Review, 35(6):893-908. DOI: 10.1108/14684521111193184
D. Yin, L. Hong and B.D. Davison. (2011) Structural Link Analysis and Prediction in Microblogs. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pages 1163-1168, Glasgow, Scotland, October.
X. Qi and B.D. Davison. (2011) Hierarchy Evolution for Improved Classification. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pages 2193-2196, Glasgow, Scotland, October.
L. Hong, D. Yin, J. Guo and B.D. Davison. (2011) Tracking Trends: Incorporating Term Volume into Temporal Topic Models. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pages 484-492, San Diego, August.
D. Yin, L. Hong, Z. Xue and B.D. Davison. (2011) Temporal Dynamics of User Interests in Tagging Systems. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 1279-1285, San Francisco, August.
Z. Xue, D. Yin and B.D. Davison. (2011) Normalizing Microtext. In Proceedings of The AAAI-11 Workshop on Analyzing Microtext, pages 74-79, San Francisco, August.
N. Dai, M. Shokouhi and B.D. Davison. (2011) Learning to Rank for Freshness and Relevance. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval, pages 95-104, Beijing, China, July.
D. Yin, L. Hong, X. Xiong and B.D. Davison. (2011) Link Formation Analysis in Microblogs. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval, pages 1235-1236, Beijing, China, July.
Z. Yang, D. Yin and B.D. Davison. (2011) Award Prediction with Temporal Citation Network Analysis. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval, pages 1203-1204, Beijing, China, July.
N. Dai, M. Shokouhi and B.D. Davison. (2011) Multi-Objective Optimization in Learning to Rank. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval, pages 1241-1242, Beijing, China, July.
O. Dan and J. Feng and B.D. Davison. (2011) A Bootstrapping Approach to Identifying Relevant Tweets for Social TV. In Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), pages 462-465, Barcelona, Spain, July.
N. Dai, X. Qi and B.D. Davison. (2011) Bridging Link and Query Intent to Enhance Web Search. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, pages 17-26, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June.
L. Hong, O. Dan and B.D. Davison. (2011) Predicting Popular Messages in Twitter. In Companion Proceedings of the 20th International World Wide Web Conference, pages 57-58, Hyderabad, India, March. Best poster paper award.
D. Yin, L. Hong and B.D. Davison. (2011) Exploiting Session-like Behaviors in Tag Prediction. In Companion Proceedings of the 20th International World Wide Web Conference, pages 167-168, Hyderabad, India, March.
N. Dai, X. Qi and B.D. Davison. (2011) Enhancing Web Search with Entity Intent. In Companion Proceedings of the 20th International World Wide Web Conference, pages 29-30, Hyderabad, India, March.
O. Dan, J. Feng and B.D. Davison. (2011) Filtering microblogging messages for Social TV. In Companion Proceedings of the 20th International World Wide Web Conference, pages 197-200, Hyderabad, India, March.
C. Castillo and B.D. Davison. (2010) Adversarial Web Search. Foundations and Trends® in Information Retrieval, Volume 4: Number 5, pages 377-486. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/1500000021
X. Qi, D. Yin, Z. Xue and B.D. Davison. (2010) Choosing Your Own Adventure: Automatic Taxonomy Generation to Permit Many Paths. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pages 1853-1856, Toronto, Canada, October.
D. Yin, Z. Xue, L. Hong and B.D. Davison. (2010) A Probabilistic Model for Personalized Tag Prediction. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pages 959-968, Washington, DC, July.
L. Hong and B.D. Davison. (2010) Empirical Study of Topic Modeling in Twitter. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Social Media Analytics (SOMA) at KDD 2010, pages 80-88, Washington, DC, July.
N. Dai and B.D. Davison. (2010) Freshness Matters: In Flowers, Food, and Web Authority. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 114-121, Geneva, Switzerland, ACM Press, July.
N. Dai and B.D. Davison. (2010) Capturing Page Freshness for Web Search. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 871-872, Geneva, Switzerland, ACM Press, July.
Z. Yang, L. Hong, and B.D. Davison. (2010) Topic-driven Multi-type Citation Network Analysis. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Adaptivity, Personalization and Fusion of Heterogeneous Information (RIAO), pages 24-31, Paris, France, April.
N. Dai and B.D. Davison. (2010) Mining Anchor Text Trends for Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), LNCS 5993, pages 127-139, Milton Keynes, UK, Springer, March.
N. Dai, B.D. Davison and Y. Wang. (2010) Mining Neighbors' Topicality to Better Control Authority Flow. In Proceedings of the 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), LNCS 5993, pages 653-657, Milton Keynes, UK, Springer, March.
L. Hong and B.D. Davison. (2010). Wanted: A Unified Model for Search in Social Media. Presented at the Third Annual Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2010), held in conjunction with WSDM 2010, New York City, February.
N. Dai and B.D. Davison. (2009) Vetting the Links of the Web. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pages 1745-1748, Hong Kong, ACM Press, November.
Q. Ye, L. Cheng, M.C. Chuah, and B.D. Davison. (2009). Performance Comparison of Different Multicast Routing Strategies in Disruption Tolerant Networks. Computer Communications, Volume 32, Number 16, pages 1731-1741, October. DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2009.02.007
J. Wang, L. Hong, and B.D. Davison. (2009). RSDC'09: Tag Recommendation Using Keywords and Association Rules. In Proceedings of the ECML/PKDD 2009 Discovery Challenge Workshop, CEUR-WS.org Vol. 497, pages 261-274, Bled, Slovenia, September.
L. Hong, Z. Yang and B.D. Davison. (2009). Incorporating Participant Reputation in Community-driven Question Answering Systems. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Social Intelligence and Networking (SIN09), CSE, Vol. 4, pages 475-480, held in conjunction with IEEE SocialCom-09, Vancouver, August.
L. Hong and B.D. Davison. (2009). A Classification-based Approach to Question Answering in Discussion Boards. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 171-178, Boston, July.
J. Wang and B.D. Davison. (2009). Counting Ancestors to Estimate Authority. Poster summary in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 658-659, Boston, July.
N. Dai, B.D. Davison and X. Qi. (2009) Looking into the Past to Better Classify Web Spam. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb), pages 1-8, Madrid, Spain, ACM Press, April.
D. Yin, Z. Xue, L. Hong, B.D. Davison, A. Kontostathis, and L. Edwards. (2009) Detection of Harassment on Web 2.0. In Proceedings of the Content Analysis in the WEB 2.0 (CAW2.0) Workshop at WWW2009, Madrid, Spain, April.
X. Qi and B.D. Davison. (2009) Web Page Classification: Features and Algorithms. ACM Computing Surveys, 41(2), February. DOI: 10.1145/1459352.1459357
J. Wang and B.D. Davison. (2008). Explorations in Tag Suggestion and Query Expansion. In Proceedings of the CIKM 2008 Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2008), pages 43-50, Napa Valley, CA, October.
X. Qi and B.D. Davison. (2008). Classifiers without Borders: Incorporating Fielded Text from Neighboring Web Pages. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 643-650, Singapore, July.
L. Nie and B.D. Davison. (2008). Separate and Inequal: Preserving Heterogeneity in Topical Authority Flows. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 443-450, Singapore, July.
B.D. Davison, W. Zhang, and B. Wu. (2008). Connecting P2P to the Web: Lessons from a Prototype Gnutella-WWW Gateway. Internet Research, 18(3):336-356. DOI: 10.1108/10662240810883344. 2009 Highly Commended award winner.
Q. Ye, L. Cheng, M.C. Chuah, and B.D. Davison. (2007) SHIM: A Scalable Hierarchical Inter-domain Multicast Approach for Disruption Tolerant Networks. In Proceedings of the International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, pages 170-175, Honolulu, August.
L. Nie, B.D. Davison and B. Wu. (2007) From Whence Does Your Authority Come? Utilizing Community Relevance in Ranking. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pages 1421-1426, Vancouver, Canada, July.
L. Nie, B. Wu and B.D. Davison. (2007) Winnowing Wheat from the Chaff: Propagating Trust to Sift Spam from the Web. Poster summary in Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 869-870, Amsterdam, July.
L. Nie, B.D. Davison and B. Wu. (2007) Ranking by Community Relevance. Poster summary in Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 873-874, Amsterdam, July.
L. Nie, B. Wu and B.D. Davison. (2007) A Cautious Surfer for PageRank. Poster summary in Proceedings of the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), pages 1119-1120, Banff, Canada, May.
X. Qi, L. Nie, and B.D. Davison. (2007) Measuring Similarity to Detect Qualified Links. In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb), pages 49-56, Banff, Canada, May.
X. Qi and B.D. Davison. (2006) Knowing a Web Page by the Company It Keeps. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pages 228-237, Arlington, VA, November.
L. Nie, B.D. Davison and X. Qi. (2006) Topical Link Analysis for Web Search. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval, pages 91-98, Seattle, WA, August.
B. Wu and B.D. Davison. (2006) Detecting Semantic Cloaking on the Web. In Proceedings of the 15th International World Wide Web Conference, pages 819-828, Edinburgh, Scotland, May.
B. Wu, V. Goel, and B.D. Davison. (2006) Topical TrustRank: Using Topicality to Combat Web Spam. In Proceedings of the 15th International World Wide Web Conference, pages 63-72, Edinburgh, Scotland, May.
B. Wu, V. Goel, and B.D. Davison. (2006) Propagating Trust and Distrust to Demote Web Spam. In Proceedings of Models of Trust for the Web (MTW), a workshop at the 15th International World Wide Web Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, May.
Q. Ye, L. Cheng, M.C. Chuah, and B.D. Davison. (2006) OS-multicast: On-demand Situation-aware Multicasting in Disruption Tolerant Networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE 63rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2006-Spring), Volume 1, pages 96-100, Melbourne, Australia, May.
M.C. Chuah, P. Yang, B.D. Davison, and L. Cheng. (2006) Store-and-Forward Performance in a Disruption Tolerant Network. In Proceedings of the IEEE 63rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2006-Spring), Volume 1, pages 187-191, Melbourne, Australia, May.
B. Wu and B.D. Davison. (2006) Undue Influence: Eliminating the Impact of Link Plagiarism on Web Search Rankings. In Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, pages 1099-1104, Dijon, France, April.
M.C. Chuah, V. Goel, and B.D. Davison. (2006) Performance evaluation of mobility management scheme in DTN. In Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), pages 539-544, Las Vegas, NV, April.
M.C. Chuah, L. Cheng, and B.D. Davison. (2005) Enhanced Disruption and Fault Tolerant Network Architecture for Bundle Delivery (EDIFY). In Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Volume 2, pages 807-812, St. Louis, November.
B. Wu and B.D. Davison. (2005) Identifying Link Farm Spam Pages. In Proceedings of the 14th International World Wide Web Conference, pages 820-829, ACM Press, Chiba, Japan, May.
B. Wu and B.D. Davison. (2005) Cloaking and Redirection: A Preliminary Study. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb), held at WWW 2005, Chiba, Japan, May.
R. Feldman, B. Rosenfeld, M. Fresko, and B.D. Davison. (2005) Hybrid Semantic Tagging for Information Extraction. In Special interest tracks and posters of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web, pages 1022-1023, ACM Press, Chiba, Japan, May.
B.D. Davison and B. Wu. (2004) Implementing a Web Proxy Evaluation Architecture. In Proceedings of 30th International Conference for the Resource Management and Performance Evaluation of Enterprise Computing Systems (CMG2004), pages 703-714, Las Vegas, December. Best paper award.
B.D. Davison. (2004) The potential of the metasearch engine. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Volume 41, pages 393-402, Providence, RI, November.
A. Kontostathis, W.M. Pottenger, and B.D. Davison. (2004) Assessing the Impact of Sparsification on LSI Performance. In Proceedings of The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Chicago, October.
B.D. Davison, W. Zhang, and B. Wu. (2004) Lessons from a Gnutella-Web Gateway. In the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference Alternate Track Papers and Posters, pages 502-503, ACM Press, New York City, May.
B.D. Davison. (2003) Unifying Text and Link Analysis. In the IJCAI-03 Workshop on Text-Mining & Link-Analysis (TextLink), Acapulco, August.
B.D. Davison. (2003) Toward a Unification of Text and Link Analysis. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, pages 367-368, Toronto, July.
B.D. Davison, D. G. Deschenes, and D. B. Lewanda. (2003) Finding Relevant Website Queries. Presented at the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference, Budapest, Hungary, May.
B.D. Davison, C. Krishnan, and B. Wu. (2002) When does a hit = a miss? In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution (WCW-2002) , pages 91-102, Boulder, CO, August.
B.D. Davison. (2002) Predicting Web Actions from HTML Content. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT'02), pages 159-168, College Park, MD, June.
B.D. Davison. (2001) A Web Caching Primer. In IEEE Internet Computing, Volume 5, Number 4, pages 38-45, July/August. DOI: 10.1109/4236.939449
B.D. Davison. (2001) Assertion: Prefetching With GET Is Not Good. In A. Bestavros and M. Rabinovich (eds), Web Caching and Content Delivery: Proceedings of the Sixth International Web Content Caching and Content Distribution Workshop (WCW'01), pages 203-215, Boston, June, Elsevier.
B.D. Davison. (2001) HTTP Simulator Validation Using Real Measurements: A Case Study. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation on Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'01), pages 389-396, Cincinnatti OH, August.
H. Hirsh, C. Basu, and B.D. Davison. (2000) Learning to Personalize. Communications of the ACM, Volume 43, Issue 8, pages 102-106, August. DOI: 10.1145/345124.345159
B.D. Davison. (2000) Topical Locality in the Web. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 272-279, Athens, Greece, July.
B.D. Davison. (2000) Recognizing Nepotistic Links on the Web. Presented at the AAAI-2000 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Web Search, Austin, TX, July 30, and published in Artificial Intelligence for Web Search, Technical Report WS-00-01, pages 23-28, AAAI Press.
B.D. Davison and V. Liberatore. (2000) Pushing Politely: Improving Web Responsiveness One Packet at a Time. In Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 28, Number 2, pages 43-49, September. DOI: 10.1145/362883.362914 Presented at the Performance and Architecture of Web Servers (PAWS) Workshop, held in conjunction with ACM SIGMETRICS 2000: International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Santa Clara, CA, June.
B.D. Davison and K. Rasheed. (1999) Effect of Global Parallelism on a Steady State GA. Extended abstract published in Proceedings of the Evolutionary Computing and Parallel Processing Workshop at GECCO-99, pages 167-170, Orlando, FL, July.
K. Rasheed and B.D. Davison. (1999) Effect of Global Parallelism on the Behavior of a Steady State Genetic Algorithm for Design Optimization. Published in Proceedings of the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC99), Volume 1, pages 534-541, Washington, DC, July.
B.D. Davison. (1999) Web Traffic Logs: An Imperfect Resource for Evaluation. Published in Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the Internet Society (INET'99), San Jose, June 22-25.
B.D. Davison, A. Gerasoulis, K. Kleisouris, Y. Lu, H. Seo, W. Wang, and B. Wu. (1999) DiscoWeb: Applying Link Analysis to Web Search. Poster presented at the Eighth International World Wide Web Conference, Toronto, May. Extended abstract included on pages 148-149 of the poster proceedings.
B.D. Davison (1999) Adaptive Web Prefetching. Position paper in Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Adaptive Systems and User Modeling on the WWW, a part of the Eighth International World Wide Web Conference, Toronto, May.
B.D. Davison (1999) Simultaneous Proxy Evaluation. In Proceedings of Fourth International Web Caching Workshop (WCW99), pages 170-178, San Diego, March.
B.D. Davison (1999) A Survey of Proxy Cache Evaluation Techniques. In Proceedings of Fourth International Web Caching Workshop (WCW99), pages 67-77, San Diego, March.
J. S. Hall, L. Steinberg, and B.D. Davison (1998) Combining Agoric and Genetic Methods in Stochastic Design. In Nanotechnology, Volume 9, Number 3 (September), pages 274-284. DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/9/3/019. (Presented at The Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology, November 1997, Palo Alto, CA.)
S. A. Macskassy, A. Banerjee, B.D. Davison, and H. Hirsh (1998) Human Performance on Clustering Web Pages: A Preliminary Study. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-98), pages 264-268, New York City: AAAI Press, August.
L. Steinberg, J. S. Hall, and B.D. Davison (1998) Highest Utility First Search Across Multiple Levels of Stochastic Design. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pages 477-484, Madison, WI: AAAI Press, July. A version of this paper was also presented at the Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation (SARA-98), Pacific Grove, CA, May.
B.D. Davison and H. Hirsh. (1998) Predicting Sequences of User Actions. Presented at the AAAI-98/ICML'98 Workshop on Predicting the Future: AI Approaches to Time Series Analysis, Madison, WI, July 27, 1998, and published in Predicting the Future: AI Approaches to Time Series Problems, Technical Report WS-98-07, pages 5-12, AAAI Press.
B.D. Davison. (1998) Classification Using an Online Genetic Algorithm. Student Abstract in Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), page 1189, Madison, WI: AAAI Press, July.
B.D. Davison and H. Hirsh. (1998) Probabilistic Online Action Prediction. Presented at the AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Environments, March 23-25, 1998, Stanford University, California, and published in Intelligent Environments: Papers from the AAAI 1998 Spring Symposium, Technical Report SS-98-02, pages 148-154: AAAI Press.
B.D. Davison and H. Hirsh. (1997) Toward An Adaptive Command Line Interface. Presented at the Seventh International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, August 24-29, 1997, San Francisco, CA. Proceedings published as Advances in Human Factors/Ergonomics Volume 21B - Design of Computing Systems: Social and Ergonomic Considerations, pages 505-508: Elsevier Science Publishers.
B.D. Davison and H. Hirsh. (1997) Experiments in UNIX Command Prediction. Student Abstract in Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, page 827, Providence, RI: AAAI Press.
J. S. Hall, L. Steinberg, and B.D. Davison (1997) Rational Control of Multi-level Stochastic Design. Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Modelling and Simulation. Pittsburgh, PA.
H. Hirsh and B.D. Davison. (1997) An Adaptive UNIX Command-Line Assistant. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pages 542-543. Marina del Ray, CA: ACM.

Other publications

H. Taysi, E. Yang, B. Davison, P. Bocchini and M. Sohrabi. (2025) An Agent-Based Catastrophe Model Driven by 2-D Hydrodynamic Flood Simulation for Risk Analysis. Presented in session: Interdisciplinary Advances in Catastrophe Modeling and Disaster Resilience: Bridging Science, Policy, and Practice, at The American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting (AGU25), New Orleans, LA, December
E. Adhikarla, Y. Liu, B.D. Davison. (2025) Diffusion Models for Low-Light Image Enhancement: A Multi-Perspective Taxonomy and Performance Analysis. arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.05976, October.
P. Li, S. Wang, H. Dai, Z. Chen, Z. Bao, B.D. Davison. (2025) A Survey on Open Dataset Search in the LLM Era: Retrospectives and Perspectives. arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.00728. September.
X. Chen, D. Goerzen, D.A. Heller, M. Zheng, A. Jagota and B.D. Davison. (2025) Cost-Effective Optimization of DNA-SWCNT Sensor Arrays for Disease Detection Using Amino Acid-Based Feature Selection. ECS Meeting Abstracts, MA2025-01(11):925. The Electrochemical Society, Inc., May.
E. Adhikarla, K. Zhang, R.G. VidalMata, M. Aithal, N.A. Madhusudhana, J. Nicholson, L. Sun, B.D. Davison. (2024) Unified-EGformer: Exposure Guided Lightweight Transformer for Mixed-Exposure Image Enhancement. arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.13170, July.
J. Yu, Y. Dai, X. Liu, J. Huang, Y. Shen, K. Zhang, R. Zhou, E. Adhikarla, W. Ye, Y. Liu, Z. Kong, K. Zhang, Y. Yin, V. Namboodiri, B.D. Davison, J.H. Moore, Y. Chen. (2024) Unleashing the Power of Multi-Task Learning: A Comprehensive Survey Spanning Traditional, Deep, and Pretrained Foundation Model Eras. arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.18961, April.
E. Adhikarla, K. Zhang, J. Yu, L. Sun, J. Nicholson, B.D. Davison. (2023) Robust Computer Vision in an Ever-Changing World: A Survey of Techniques for Tackling Distribution Shifts. arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.01540, December.
K. Zhang, J. Yu, Z. Yan, Y. Liu, E. Adhikarla, S. Fu, X. Chen, C. Chen, Y. Zhou, X. Li, L. He, B.D. Davison, Q. Li, Y. Chen, H. Liu, and L. Sun. (2023) BiomedGPT: A Unified and Generalist Biomedical Generative Pre-trained Transformer for Vision, Language, and Multimodal Tasks. arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.17100, May. Revised version published in Nature Medicine (August 2024).
D. Luo, L. Zou, Q. Ai, Z. Chen, C. Li, D. Yin, and B.D. Davison. (2023) Unconfounded Propensity Estimation for Unbiased Ranking. arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.09918, May. Improved version published in SIGIR, July 2024.
E. Adhikarla, D. Luo, and B.D. Davison. (2022) Memory Defense: More Robust Classification via a Memory-Masking Autoencoder. arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.02595, February.
Y. Zhang and B.D. Davison. (2021) Weighted Pseudo Labeling Refinement for Plant Identification. CLEF Working Notes 2021, CLEF: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Bucharest, Romania, CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2936, CEUR-WS.org, pages 1659-1667, September 2021.
Y. Zhang and B.D. Davison. (2020) Adversarial Consistent Learning on Partial Domain Adaptation of PlantCLEF 2020 Challenge. CLEF Working Notes 2020, CLEF: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Thessaloniki, Greece, CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2696, CEUR-WS.org, September 2020.
Y. Zhang and B.D. Davison. (2019) Modified Distribution Alignment for Domain Adaptation with Pre-trained Inception ResNet. arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.02322, April.
O. Dan, V. Parikh and B.D. Davison. (2018) IP Geolocation through Reverse DNS. arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.04288, November. Improved and extended version published in TOIT, February 2022.
Z. Yang, D. Yin and B.D. Davison, (2014) Optimizing MAP in Joint Multi-Relational Models for Recommendations in the Academic Network. Technical Report LU-CSE-14-002, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.
X. Qi and B.D. Davison. (2011) Optimizing Hierarchical Classification Through Tree Evolution. Technical Report LU-CSE-11-002, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.
X. Qi, D. Yin, Z. Xue and B.D. Davison. (2010) Enhancing Taxonomies by Providing Many Paths. Technical Report LU-CSE-10-005, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.
D. Yin, Z. Xue, X. Qi and B.D. Davison. (2009) Diversifying Search Results with Popular Subtopics. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2009), Gaithersburg, MD: NIST, SP 500-278, November 2009.
R.N. Nagel, S.L. Goldman, and B.D. Davison. (2009) Migrating to Agility 2.0: Social Computing Enables Organizational Growth and Innovation. White paper sponsored by the PA Infrastructure Technology Alliance, March.
B.D. Davison, M. Lalmas, and D. D. Lewis. (2008) ACM SIGIR Annual Business Meeting 2008: Secretary's Notes. In SIGIR Forum, Volume 42, Number 2, pages 3-8, December.
C. Castillo, K. Chellapilla, and B.D. Davison. (2008) Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb 2007). In SIGIR Forum, Volume 42, Number 1, pages 68-72, June.
Q. Ye, L. Cheng, M.C. Chuah, and B.D. Davison. (2008) Performance Comparison of Different Multicast Routing Strategies in Disruption Tolerant Networks. Technical Report LU-CSE-08-009, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.
M. Najork and B.D. Davison. (2008) Introduction to Special Section on Adversarial Issues in Web Search. In ACM Transactions on the Web, Volume 2, Number 1, February.
B. Wu and B.D. Davison. (2008) Web Spam Identification and Blocking. Article in The McGraw-Hill 2008 Yearbook of Science and Technology, pages 370-372. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.YB084180
S. K. Bhandari, B.D. Davison. (2007) Leveraging Search Engine Results for Query Classification. Technical Report LU-CSE-07-013, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.
Y. Wang, X. Qi and B.D. Davison. (2007) Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Ranking by Combining Multiple Sources. Technical Report LU-CSE-07-011, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.
L. Nie, B. Wu and B.D. Davison. (2007) Incorporating Trust into Web Search. Technical Report LU-CSE-07-002, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.
B.D. Davison, M. Najork, and T. Converse. (2006) SIGIR Workshop Report: Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb 2006). In SIGIR Forum, Volume 40, Number 2, pages 27-30, December.
M.C. Chuah, P. Yang, B.D. Davison, and L. Cheng. (2006) Performance Comparison of Unicast Routing Schemes in DTNs. Technical Report LU-CSE-06-024, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.
Q. Ye, L. Cheng, M.C. Chuah, and B.D. Davison. (2006) Performance Comparison of Multicasting Approaches in Disruption Tolerant Networks. Technical Report LU-CSE-06-020, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.
B. Wu and B.D. Davison. (2006) Undue Influence: Eliminating the Impact of Link Plagiarism on Web Search Rankings. Technical Report LU-CSE-06-007, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.
B.D. Davison. (2006) World wide web search engines. Article in The McGraw-Hill 2006 Yearbook of Science and Technology, pages 347-349. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.YB061650
B.D. Davison and W. Zhang. (2005) Searching the Web and more --- a juxtaposition of online search traces. Technical Report LU-CSE-05-005, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.
B.D. Davison. (2005) Search engine. Article in The World Book Encyclopedia, pages 268-269.
H.S. Baird, D. Lopresti, B.D. Davison, and W.M. Pottenger. (2004) Robust Document Image Understanding Technologies. In Proceedings of the CIKM Hardcopy Document Processing Workshop, pages 9-14, Washington, DC, November 2004.
D. G. Deschenes, S. D. Weber, and B.D. Davison. (2004) Crawling Gnutella: Lessons Learned. Technical Report LU-CSE-04-005, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.
B.D. Davison, W. Zhang, and J. Miller. (2003/2004) A non-functional prototype at TREC 2003. Proceedings of the Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2003), pages 383-385, November 18-21, 2003, Gaithersburg, MD: NIST.
W. Zhang, D. B. Lewanda, C. D. Janneck, and B.D. Davison. (2003) Personalized Web Prefetching in Mozilla. Technical Report LU-CSE-03-006, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.
Q. Wang and B.D. Davison. (2003) Review: Web Caching and Replication. SIGMOD Record, Volume 32, Number 4, December, pages 107-108.
B.D. Davison, K. Komaravolu, and B. Wu. (2002) A Split Stack Approach to Mobility-Providing Performance-Enhancing Proxies. Technical Report LU-CSE-02-012, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.
B.D. Davison. (2002) The Design and Evaluation of Web Prefetching and Caching Techniques Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. October 2002.
L. Grevnin and B.D. Davison. (2002) HTTPflow: An Introduction. Technical Report LU-CSE-02-003, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University.
B.D. Davison. (2001) Web Link and Traffic Analysis for Recommendation. In Recommender Systems: Papers and Notes from the 2001 Workshop, Co-located with SIGIR 2001, New Orleans, LA, September.
B.D. Davison. (2001) NCS: Network and Cache Simulator -- An Introduction. Technical Report DCS-TR-444, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University.
B.D. Davison and C. Krishnan. (2001) ROPE: The Rutgers Online Proxy Evaluator. Technical Report DCS-TR-445, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University.
B.D. Davison and V. Liberatore. (2000) Pushing Politely: Improving Web Responsiveness One Packet at a Time. Technical Report DCS-TR-415, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University.
B.D. Davison. (2000) Topical Locality in the Web: Experiments and Observations. Technical Report DCS-TR-414, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University.
B.D. Davison. (2000) Is Your Web Site Cache Friendly? Invited article in the March issue of Web Techniques, Volume 5, Issue 3, pages 101-103. Selected as "Tip of the Day" on 29 February 2000 for the HTML site on About.com.
B.D. Davison, A. Gerasoulis, K. Kleisouris, Y. Lu, H. Seo, J. Tian, S. Wang, W. Wang, and B. Wu. (1999/2000) An Early DiscoWeb Prototype at TREC8. Proceedings of the Eighth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-8), November 16-19, 1999, Gaithersburg, MD: NIST.
V. Liberatore and B.D. Davison. (1999) Data Dissemination on the Web: Speculative and Unobtrusive. Technical Report 99-23, UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
B.D. Davison (1998/1999) Measuring the Performance of Prefetching Proxy Caches. Poster presented at the ACM International Student Research Competition, March 24-28, 1999. Awarded Third Place, Graduate Category. Poster presented at the AT&T Student Research Symposium (a regional ACM Student Research Competition), November 13, 1998. Awarded First Place, PhD Division.
S. A. Macskassy, A. Banerjee, B.D. Davison, and H. Hirsh (1998) Human Performance on Clustering Web Pages. Technical Report DCS-TR-355, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University.
L. Steinberg, J. S. Hall, and B.D. Davison (1998) Highest Utility First Search: a Control Method for Multi-level Stochastic Design. HPCD Technical Report #59, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University.
B.D. Davison and H. Hirsh. (1997) Experiments in UNIX Command Prediction. Machine Learning Technical Report ML-TR-41, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University.
B.D. Davison. (1991) On the Probabilistic Logic and the McCullogh-Pitts Neuron Models. Undergraduate Honors Thesis in Computer Science and Engineering, Bucknell University.

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