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
1 June 2009	A postdoc position in the WUME lab is available through CIFellows.org if you hurry!
12 May 2009	Our paper entitled A Classification-based Approach to Question Answering in Discussion Boards by Liangjie Hong and Brian D. Davison has been accepted to SIGIR 2009.
12 May 2009	Our poster entitled Counting Ancestors to Estimate Authority by Jian Wang and Brian D. Davison has been accepted to SIGIR 2009.
4 May 2009	Prof. Davison gave a talk on "Searching Archival Webs Efficiently and Effectively" to the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) General Assembly in Ottawa.
21 April 2009	Prof. Davison presented his AIRWeb 2009 Keynote on The Potential for Research and Development in Adversarial Information Retrieval.
21 April 2009	Na Dai presented our paper on Looking into the Past to Better Classify Web Spam at AIRWeb 2009.
21 April 2009	Prof. Davison presented our group paper on Detection of Harassment on Web 2.0 at CAW2.
9 March 2009	Our survey paper on web classification has been published by ACM Computing Surveys.
2 March 2009	Our paper, Connecting P2P to the Web: Lessons from a Prototype Gnutella-WWW Gateway, published in in Internet Research has been chosen as a Highly Commended Award Winner at the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2009.