Hossam S. Sharara

PhD Candidate

Computer Science Department,

University of Maryland, College Park

Publications

Journal Articles

Hossam Sharara, Lisa Singh, Lise Getoor and Janet Mann, "Understanding Actor Loyalty to Event-Based Groups in Affiliation Networks". Journal of Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining,1(2): 115-126, 2011.


Book Chapters

Galileo Namata, Hossam Sharara, and Lise Getoor, "A Survey of Link Mining Tasks for Analyzing Noisy and Incomplete Networks". Book chapter in Link Mining: Models, Algorithms and Applications, Philip S. Yu, Christos Faloutsos, and Jiawei Han (Editors), 2010.

Hossam Sharara and Lise Getoor, "Group Detection". Article in Encyclopedia of Machine Learning, Claude Sammut and Geoffrey I. Webb (Editors), 2010.


Conference Papers

Hossam Sharara, Awalin Sopan, Galileo Namata, Lise Getoor, and Lisa Singh “G-PARE: A Visual Analytic Tool for Comparative Analysis of Uncertain Graphs”.In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), Providence, RI, 2011. [PDF]

Hossam Sharara, William Rand, and Lise Getoor, “Differential Adaptive Diffusion: Understanding Diversity and Learning whom to Trust in Viral Marketing”.In Proceedings of the fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Barcelona, Spain, 2011. [PDF]

Hossam Sharara, Lise Getoor, and Myra Norton, “Active Surveying: A Probabilistic Approach for Identifying Key Opinion Leaders”. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Joint Conference On Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Barcelona, Spain, 2011. [PDF]

Hossam Sharara, Cedric Westphal, Svetlana Radosvac, and Ulas Kozat, “Utilizing Social Influence in Content Distribution Networks”. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC), Kyoto, Japan, 2011 (Best Paper Award).

Hossam Sharara, Daniel Halgin, Lise Getoor, and Steve Borgatti, “Multi-dimensional Trajectory Analysis for Career Histories”. International Sunbelt Social Networks Conference XXXI, St. Pete Beach, FL, 2011.

Hossam Sharara, Myra Norton, and Lise Getoor, “Active Surveying for Leadership Identification”. The International Sunbelt Social Networks Conference XXX, Trento, Italy, 2010.

Elena Zheleva, Hossam Sharara and Lise Getoor, "Co-evolution of friendship and affiliation networks". In Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference On Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2009), Paris, France. [PDF]

Hossam Sharara, Lisa Singh, Lise Getoor and Janet Mann, "The Dynamics of Actor Loyalty to Groups in Affiliation Networks Social Networks". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2009), Athens, Greece. [PDF]

Hossam S. Sharara, Mohamed A. Ismail. "BISOFT: A Semi-Fuzzy Approach for Bi-Clustering Gene Expression Data", Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP),2008. Volume I, Pages: 151 - 157.

Hossam S. Sharara, Mohamed A. Ismail. "AlphaCORR: A novel algorithm for clustering gene expression data",  Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, 2007Pages: 974 - 981   [PDF]


Workshop Papers

Hossam Sharara, Lise Getoor, and Myra Norton, "Active Surveying". NIPS 2010 Workshop on Networks Across Disciplines in Theory and Applications, Whistler, BC, Canada.

Hossam Sharara, Lise Getoor, and Myra Norton, "An Active Learning Approach for Identifying Key Opinion Leaders". The 2nd workshop on Information in Networks (WIN 2010), New York, NY.