Selected Publications

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In press

1. S. Fortunato, M. Boguna, A. Flammini, F. Menczer: On local estimations of PageRank: A mean field approach. To appear in Internet Mathematics
2. M. A. Janssen, R. Goldstone, F. Menczer, E. Ostrom: Effect of Rule Choice in Dynamic Interactive Spatial Commons. To appear in International Journal of the Commons
3. M. Meiss, F. Menczer, A. Vespignani: Structural analysis of behavioral networks from the Internet. To appear in J. Phys. A
4. S. Fortunato, M. Boguna, A. Flammini, F. Menczer: Approximating PageRank from in-degree. To appear in Proc. WAW 2006, LNCS, Springer, in press

2008

1. M. Meiss, F. Menczer, S. Fortunato, A. Flammini, A. Vespignani: Ranking Web Sites with Real User Traffic. Proc. WSDM 2008
2. B. Markines, H. Roinestad, F. Menczer: Efficient Assembly of Social Semantic Networks. Proc. HT 2008
3. J. Donaldson, M. Conover, B. Markines, H. Roinestad, F. Menczer: Visualizing Social Links in Exploratory Search. Proc. HT 2008
4. T. Tassier, F. Menczer: Social Network Structure, Equality and Segregation in a Labor Market with Referral Hiring. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 66 (3-4): 514-528, 2008 (preprint)

2007

1. T. Jagatic, N. Johnson, M. Jakobsson, F. Menczer: Social Phishing. Comm. of the ACM 5(10): 94-100, Oct 2007 (preprint)
2. L.-S. Wu, R. Akavipat, F. Menczer: 6S: P2P Web index collecting and sharing application. Application presented at RIAO 2007 (plagiarism notice)
3. M. Meiss, F. Menczer, A. Vespignani: A Framework for Analysis of Anonymized Network Flow Data. Proc. NGDM 2007
4. L.-S. Wu, R. Akavipat, A. Maguitman, F. Menczer: Adaptive Peer to Peer Social Networks for Distributed Content Based Web Search. In Social Information Retrieval Systems: Emergent Technologies and Applications for Searching the Web Effectively, IGI Global, 2007 (plagiarism notice)
5. F. Menczer: Web Crawling (lecture slides). In Web Data Mining: Exploring Hyperlink, Content and Usage Data by B. Liu. Springer, pp. 273-322, 2007

2006

1. S. Fortunato, A. Flammini, F. Menczer, A. Vespignani: Topical interests and the mitigation of search engine bias. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103(34): 12684-12689, 2006
2. S. Fortunato, A. Flammini, F. Menczer: Scale-free network growth by ranking. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96(21): 218701, 2006
3. B. Markines, L. Stoilova, F. Menczer: Social Bookmarks for Collaborative Search and Recommendation. Final version in Proc. AAAI 2006
4. A. Maguitman, F. Menczer, F. Erdinc, H. Roinestad, A. Vespignani: Algorithmic Computation and Approximation of Semantic Similarity. Final version in WWW Journal 9(4): 431-456, 2006
5. R. Akavipat, L.-S. Wu, F. Menczer, A. Maguitman: Emerging Semantic Communities in Peer Web Search. Final version to appear in Proc. ACM CIKM P2PIR 2006 (plagiarism notice)
6. Y.S. Kim, N. Street, F. Menczer: Optimal Ensemble Construction via Meta-Evolutionary Ensembles. Final version in Expert Systems With Applications 30(4): 705-714, 2006
7. F. Menczer, S. Fortunato, A. Flammini, A. Vespignani: Googlearchy or Googlocracy? IEEE Spectrum, Feb 2006
8. B. Markines, L. Stoilova, F. Menczer: Implicit Tagging using Donated Bookmarks. Proc. WWW2006 Workshop on Collaborative Web Tagging, 2006
9. M.S. Aktas, M.A. Nacar, F. Menczer: Using Hyperlink Features to Personalize Web Search. In Advances in Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis, Proc. 6th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from the Web (WebKDD 2004), LNAI Volume 3932, pp. 104-115, Springer, 2006
10. F. Menczer:
    • Phishing on Froogle
    • Using the Autofill feature in Phishing
    Case studies in Phishing and Countermeasures, Wiley, 2006

2005

1. A. Maguitman, F. Menczer, H. Roinestad, A. Vespignani: Algorithmic Detection of Semantic Similarity. Proc. WWW2005 (Finalist for Best Paper Award)
2. M. Meiss, F. Menczer, A. Vespignani: On the lack of typical behavior in the global Web traffic network. Proc. WWW2005
3. F. Menczer: Mapping the semantics of Web text and links. Final version in IEEE Internet Computing 9(3): 27-36, May/June 2005
4. P. Srinivasan, F. Menczer, G. Pant: A General Evaluation Framework for Topical Crawlers. Information Retrieval 8(3): 417-447, 2005
5. L.-S. Wu, R. Akavipat, F. Menczer: 6S: Distributing crawling and searching across Web peers. Proc. WTAS 2005 (plagiarism notice)
6. L.-S. Wu, R. Akavipat, F. Menczer: Adaptive Query Routing in Peer Web Search. Poster Proc. WWW2005 (plagiarism notice)
7. L. Stoilova, T. Holloway, B. Markines, A. Maguitman, F. Menczer: GiveALink: Mining a Semantic Network of Bookmarks for Web Search and Recommendation. Proc. KDD Workshop on Link Discovery: Issues, Approaches and Applications (LinkKDD-2005)
8. Y.S. Kim, N. Street, G. Russell, F. Menczer: Customer Targeting: A Neural Network Approach Guided by Genetic Algorithms. Management Science 51(2): 264-276, 2005

2004

1. F. Menczer: The Evolution of Document Networks. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101: 5261-5265, 2004
2. F. Menczer: Correlated topologies in citation networks and the Web. Eur. Phys. J. B 38(2): 211-221, 2004
3. F. Menczer, G. Pant, P. Srinivasan: Topical Web Crawlers: Evaluating Adaptive Algorithms. ACM TOIT 4(4): 378-419, 2004 (definitive version)
4. F. Menczer: Lexical and Semantic Clustering by Web Links. JASIST 55(14): 1261-1269, 2004
5. F. Menczer: Combining Link and Content Analysis to Estimate Semantic Similarity. Proc. 13th Intl. WWW Conf. Alt. Track Papers and Posters, pp. 452-453, 2004
6. R. Akavipat, L.-S. Wu, F. Menczer: Small World Networks in Distributed Web Search. Proc. 13th Intl. WWW Conf. Alt. Track Papers and Posters, pp. 396-397, 2004 (plagiarism notice)
7. G. Pant, P. Srinivasan, F. Menczer: Crawling the Web. In M. Levene and A. Poulovassilis, eds.: Web Dynamics, Springer, 2004
8. A. Maguitman, D. Leake, T. Reichherzer, F. Menczer: Dynamic Extraction of Topic Descriptors and Discriminators: Towards Automatic Context-Based Topic Search. Proc. 13th Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2004)

2003

1. M. Jakobsson, F. Menczer: Untraceable Email Cluster Bombs: On Agent-Based Distributed Denial of Service. First published in ;login: - The Magazine of the USENIX Association, Dec. 2003
2. G. Pant, S. Bradshaw, F. Menczer: Search engine-crawler symbiosis: Adapting to Community Interests. Proc. ECDL 2003
3. G. Pant, F. Menczer: Topical crawling for business intelligence. Proc. ECDL 2003
4. P. Srinivasan, F. Menczer, G. Pant: Defining Evaluation Methodologies for Topical Crawlers. Position paper, SIGIR 2003 Workshop on Defining Evaluation Methodologies for Terabyte-Scale Collections
5. F. Menczer: Complementing Search Engines with Online Web Mining Agents. Decision Support Systems 35(2): 195-212, 2003
6. Y.S. Kim, N. Street, F. Menczer: Feature Selection in Data Mining. In J. Wang, ed.: Data Mining: Opportunities and Challenges, Idea Group Publishing, pp. 80-105, 2003

2002

1. F. Menczer: Growing and Navigating the Small World Web by Local Content. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99(22): 14014-14019, 2002
2. F. Menczer, A. Monge, N. Street: Adaptive Assistants for Customized E-Shopping. IEEE Intelligent Systems 17(6): 12-19, Nov-Dec 2002
3. G. Pant, F. Menczer: MySpiders: Evolve your own intelligent Web crawlers. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 5(2): 221-229, 2002
4. F. Menczer, A.M. Segre: OAMulator: A Teaching Resource to Introduce Computer Architecture Concepts. ACM Journal of Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC) 1(4): 18-30, 2002
5. Y.S. Kim, N. Street, F. Menczer: Evolutionary model selection in unsupervised learning. Intelligent Data Analysis 6(6): 531-556, 2002
6. F. Menczer, N. Street, N. Vishwakarma, A. Monge, M. Jakobsson: IntelliShopper: A Proactive, Personal, Private Shopping Assistant. Proc. 1st ACM Int. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2002) pp. 1001-1008
7. P. Srinivasan, J. Mitchell, O. Bodenreider, G. Pant, F. Menczer: Web Crawling Agents for Retrieving Biomedical Information. Proc. Int. Workshop on Agents in Bioinformatics (NETTAB 2002)
8. Y.S. Kim, N. Street, F. Menczer: Meta-Evolutionary Ensembles. Proc. IEEE Intl. Joint Conf. on Neural Networks (IJCNN'02)
9. G. Pant, P. Srinivasan, F. Menczer: Exploration versus Exploitation in Topic Driven Crawlers. Proc. WWW 2002 Workshop on Web Dynamics

2001

1. T. Tassier, F. Menczer: Emerging Small-World Referral Networks in Evolutionary Labor Markets. Final version in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 5 (5), October 2001
2. F. Menczer, G. Pant, M. Ruiz, P. Srinivasan: Evaluating Topic-Driven Web Crawlers. Proc. ACM SIGIR 2001
3. M. Degeratu, G. Pant, F. Menczer: Latency-dependent fitness in evolutionary multithreaded Web agents. Proc. GECCO 2001 EcoMAS Workshop
4. Y.S. Kim, N. Street, F. Menczer: Unsupervised Model Selection via Evolutionary Local Search. Proc. IJCAI-01 Workshop on Wrappers for Performance Enhancement in Knowledge Discovery in Databases
5. Y.S. Kim, N. Street, F. Menczer: An Evolutionary Multi-Objective Local Selection Algorithm for Customer Targeting. Proc. Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2001
6. F. Menczer, W.N. Street, M. Degeratu: Evolving heterogeneous neural agents by local selection. In Advances in the Evolutionary Synthesis of Intelligent Agents, edited by Mukesh Patel, Vasant Honavar, and Karthik Balakrishnan, MIT Press, 2001

2000

1. F. Menczer, R.K. Belew: Adaptive Retrieval Agents: Internalizing Local Context and Scaling up to the Web. Machine Learning Journal 39 (2/3): 203-242, 2000. (Longer version available as Technical Report CS98-579 University of California, San Diego)
2. F. Menczer, M. Degeratu, W.N. Street: Efficient and Scalable Pareto Optimization by Evolutionary Local Selection Algorithms. Final version in Evolutionary Computation 8(2): 223-247, 2000
3. Y.S. Kim, N. Street, F. Menczer: Feature Selection in Unsupervised Learning via Evolutionary Search. In KDD-2000: Proc. 6th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
4. L. Dagorn, F. Menczer, P. Bach, R. Olson: Co-evolution of movement behaviors by tropical pelagic predatory fishes in response to prey environment: A simulation model. Final version in Ecological Modelling 134 (2-3): 325-341, October 2000

1999

1. F. Menczer: Is Agent-based Online Search Feasible?. In Spring Symposium on Intelligent Agents in Cyberspace, AAAI Press, 1999
2. F. Menczer, A.E. Monge: Scalable Web Search by Adaptive Online Agents: An InfoSpiders Case Study. In M. Klusch, ed., Intelligent Information Agents, Springer, 1999

1998

1. PhD dissertation: Life-like agents: Internalizing local cues for reinforcement learning and evolution
2. F. Menczer, R.K. Belew: Adaptive Information Agents in Distributed Textual Environments. In K. Sycara and M. Wooldridge (eds.) Proc. 2nd Intl. Conf. on Autonomous Agents (Agents '98), ACM Press, 1998
3. L. Pagliarini, A. Dolan, F. Menczer, H. Lund: ALife Meets the Web: Lessons Learned. In J.-C. Heudin (ed.) Virtual Worlds 98, LNAI 1434, Springer-Verlag, 1998
4. F. Menczer, R.K. Belew: Local Selection. In V.W. Porto, N. Saravanan, D. Waagen, A.E. Eiben (eds.) Evolutionary Programming VII (EP98), LNAI 1447, Springer-Verlag, 1998

1997

1. F. Menczer: ARACHNID: Adaptive Retrieval Agents Choosing Heuristic Neighborhoods for Information Discovery. In D. Fisher, ed., Machine Learning: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference (ICML97), San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann; also presented at RIAO'97.

1996

1. F. Menczer, R.K.Belew: From complex environments to complex behaviors. Extended version appeared in Adaptive Behavior 4:3-4, Winter-Spring 1996 (Special Issue on Environment Structure, ed. by P. Todd)
2. F. Menczer, R.K. Belew: Latent Energy Environments. In Adaptive Individuals in Evolving Populations: Models and Algorithms, edited by R.K. Belew and M. Mitchell, SFI Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Vol. XXIII, Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1996

1995

1. F. Cecconi, F. Menczer, R.K.Belew: Maturation and the evolution of imitative learning in artificial organisms. Technical Report CSE 506 University of California, San Diego, 1995; extended version appeared in Adaptive Behavior 4:1, Summer 1995
2. F. Menczer, R.K. Belew, W. Willuhn: Artificial life applied to adaptive information agents. In Spring Symposium on Information Gathering from Distributed, Heterogeneous Databases, AAAI Press, 1995

1994

1. F. Menczer, R.K. Belew: Evolving Sensors in Environments of Controlled Complexity. Artificial Life IV, edited by R. Brooks and P. Maes, MIT Press, 1994
2. F. Menczer, W. Willuhn, R.K. Belew: An endogenous fitness paradigm for adaptive information agents. CIKM Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents, 1994
3. O. Miglino, F. Menczer, P. Bovet: A Neuro-Ethological Approach for the TSP: Changing Metaphors in Connectionist Models. Journal of Biological Systems, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1994 (357-366)

1993

1. F. Menczer, R.K. Belew: Latent Energy Environments: A Tool for Artificial Life Simulations. Technical Report CS93-301 University of California, San Diego, July 1993

1992

1. F. Menczer, D. Parisi: Recombination and Unsupervised Learning: Effects of Crossover in the Genetic Optimization of Neural Networks. Network: Computation in Neural Systems Vol. 3, No. 4, December 1992 (423-442)
2. F. Menczer, D. Parisi: Evidence of Hyperplanes in the Genetic Learning of Neural Networks. Biological Cybernetics Vol.66, No. 3, January 1992 (283-289)
3. F. Menczer, D. Parisi: A Model for the Emergence of Sex in Evolving Networks: Adaptive Advantage or Random Drift? Toward a Practice of Autonomous Systems: Proc. First European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 91, Paris, December 1991), edited by F. Varela and P. Bourgine, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992