Incubating both researchers and ideas.

Web Understanding, Modeling, and Evaluation Lab

The WUME Lab houses a research group dedicated to studying the World Wide Web and the Internet. We are particularly interested in web search, link analysis models, search engine spam, and models of trust and authority. Although not our focus at present, we also have long-standing interests in infrastructure, architecture, measurement, mobility, and evaluation for the Internet and peer-to-peer networks. It is directed by Prof. Brian D. Davison and is a part of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University.

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The latest news from the WUME Lab:

When	What
30 April 2007	Our paper entitled From Whence Does Your Authority Come? Utilizing Community Relevance in Ranking by Lan Nie, Brian D. Davison and Baoning Wu has been accepted to AAAI 2007.
28 April 2007	Our posters entitled Winnowing Wheat from the Chaff: Propagating Trust to Sift Spam from the Web and Ranking by Community Relevance by Lan Nie, Brian D. Davison and Baoning Wu has been accepted to SIGIR 2007.
4 April 2007	Our poster entitled A Cautious Surfer for PageRank by Lan Nie, Baoning Wu and Brian D. Davison has been accepted for presentation at WWW 2007.
3 April 2007	Our paper entitled Measuring Similarity to Detect Qualified Links by Xiaoguang Qi, Lan Nie and Brian D. Davison has been accepted for presentation at AIRWeb 2007.
March 2007	Dr. Baoning Wu successfully defended his thesis in February, and has graduated. He has since joined Snap.com.
January 2007	New paper released: Incorporating Trust into Web Search by Lan Nie, Baoning Wu, and Brian D. Davison
1 September 2006	Our paper entitled Knowing a Web Page by the Company It Keeps by Xiaoguang Qi and Brian D. Davison has been accepted for presentation at CIKM 2006.
30 August 2006	The National Science Foundation has awarded its Faculty Early CAREER award to Prof. Davison for his work on "Contextual Link Analysis".