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API : an index for quantifying a scholar's academic potential

- Ren, Jing, Wang, Lei, Wang, Kailai, Yu, Shuo, Hou, Mingliang, Lee, Ivan, Kong, Xiangje, Xia, Feng

  • Authors: Ren, Jing , Wang, Lei , Wang, Kailai , Yu, Shuo , Hou, Mingliang , Lee, Ivan , Kong, Xiangje , Xia, Feng
  • Date: 2019
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: IEEE Access Vol. 7, no. (2019), p. 178675-178684
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  • Description: In the context of big scholarly data, various metrics and indicators have been widely applied to evaluate the impact of scholars from different perspectives, such as publication counts, citations, ${h}$-index, and their variants. However, these indicators have limited capacity in characterizing prospective impacts or achievements of scholars. To solve this problem, we propose the Academic Potential Index (API) to quantify scholar's academic potential. Furthermore, an algorithm is devised to calculate the value of API. It should be noted that API is a dynamic index throughout scholar's academic career. By applying API to rank scholars, we can identify scholars who show their academic potentials during the early academic careers. With extensive experiments conducted based on the Microsoft Academic Graph dataset, it can be found that the proposed index evaluates scholars' academic potentials effectively and captures the variation tendency of their academic impacts. Besides, we also apply this index to identify rising stars in academia. Experimental results show that the proposed API can achieve superior performance in identifying potential scholars compared with three baseline methods. © 2019 IEEE.

Motifs in big networks : methods and applications

- Yu, Shuo, Xu, Jin, Zhang, Chen, Xia, Feng, Almakhadmeh, Zafer, Tolba, Amr

  • Authors: Yu, Shuo , Xu, Jin , Zhang, Chen , Xia, Feng , Almakhadmeh, Zafer , Tolba, Amr
  • Date: 2019
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: IEEE Access Vol. 7, no. (2019), p. 183322-183338
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  • Description: Motifs have been recognized as basic network blocks and are found to be quite powerful in modeling certain patterns. Generally speaking, local characteristics of big networks could be reflected in network motifs. Over the years, motifs have attracted a lot of attention from researchers. However, most current literature reviews on motifs generally focus on the field of biological science. In contrast, here we try to present a comprehensive survey on motifs in the context of big networks. We introduce the definition of motifs and other related concepts. Big networks with motif-based structures are analyzed. Specifically, we respectively analyze four kinds of networks, including biological networks, social networks, academic networks, and infrastructure networks. We then examine methods for motif discovery, motif counting, and motif clustering. The applications of motifs in different areas have also been reviewed. Finally, some challenges and open issues in this direction are discussed. © 2013 IEEE.

OFFER: A Motif Dimensional Framework for Network Representation Learning

- Yu, Shuo, Xia, Feng, Xu, Jin, Chen, Zhikui, Lee, Ivan

  • Authors: Yu, Shuo , Xia, Feng , Xu, Jin , Chen, Zhikui , Lee, Ivan
  • Date: 2020
  • Type: Text , Conference proceedings
  • Relation: 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2020 p. 3349-3352
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  • Description: Aiming at better representing multivariate relationships, this paper investigates a motif dimensional framework for higher-order graph learning. The graph learning effectiveness can be improved through OFFER. The proposed framework mainly aims at accelerating and improving higher-order graph learning results. We apply the acceleration procedure from the dimensional of network motifs. Specifically, the refined degree for nodes and edges are conducted in two stages: (1) employ motif degree of nodes to refine the adjacency matrix of the network; and (2) employ motif degree of edges to refine the transition probability matrix in the learning process. In order to assess the efficiency of the proposed framework, four popular network representation algorithms are modified and examined. By evaluating the performance of OFFER, both link prediction results and clustering results demonstrate that the graph representation learning algorithms enhanced with OFFER consistently outperform the original algorithms with higher efficiency. © 2020 ACM.

Detecting outlier patterns with query-based artificially generated searching conditions

- Yu, Shuo, Xia, Feng, Sun, Yuchen, Tang, Tao, Yan, Xiaoran, Lee, Ivan

  • Authors: Yu, Shuo , Xia, Feng , Sun, Yuchen , Tang, Tao , Yan, Xiaoran , Lee, Ivan
  • Date: 2021
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems Vol. 8, no. 1 (2021), p. 134-147
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  • Description: In the age of social computing, finding interesting network patterns or motifs is significant and critical for various areas, such as decision intelligence, intrusion detection, medical diagnosis, social network analysis, fake news identification, and national security. However, subgraph matching remains a computationally challenging problem, let alone identifying special motifs among them. This is especially the case in large heterogeneous real-world networks. In this article, we propose an efficient solution for discovering and ranking human behavior patterns based on network motifs by exploring a user's query in an intelligent way. Our method takes advantage of the semantics provided by a user's query, which in turn provides the mathematical constraint that is crucial for faster detection. We propose an approach to generate query conditions based on the user's query. In particular, we use meta paths between the nodes to define target patterns as well as their similarities, leading to efficient motif discovery and ranking at the same time. The proposed method is examined in a real-world academic network using different similarity measures between the nodes. The experiment result demonstrates that our method can identify interesting motifs and is robust to the choice of similarity measures. © 2014 IEEE.

Understanding serendipity in science : a survey

- Yu, Shuo, Bedru, Hayat, Xinbei, Chu, Yuyuan, Yuan, Xia, Feng

  • Authors: Yu, Shuo , Bedru, Hayat , Xinbei, Chu , Yuyuan, Yuan , Xia, Feng
  • Date: 2021
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery Vol. 5, no. 1 (2021), p. 16-35
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  • Description: [Objective] This paper summarizes the components and definitions of serendipity, reviews representative supporting technologies and applications of serendipity in science, and discusses challenges and future directions in this field. [Coverage] We searched relevant keywords such as“serendipity”,“novelty”and “diversity”in research repositories such as Microsoft Academic and Google Scholar. A total of 102 well-selected references are finally cited. [Methods] We reviewed serendipitous discoveries in various scenarios, and discussed the concept of serendipity in the context of science. Relevant tools and applications are categorized. [Results] The tools that support serendipity are conducive to scientific research. However, there is no uniform definition of serendipity, thus making it difficult to measure serendipity in science. [Limitations] The factors affecting serendipity in science are complex, and yet to be explored. [Conclusions] Serendipity is one of the indispensable factors for scientific advances. However, many challenges are facing the exploration of serendipity in science, such as lack of metrics and difficulty to control. © 2021, Chinese Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

Graph Force Learning

- Sun, Ke, Liu, Jiaying, Yu, Shuo, Xu, Bo, Xia, Feng

  • Authors: Sun, Ke , Liu, Jiaying , Yu, Shuo , Xu, Bo , Xia, Feng
  • Date: 2020
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: 8th IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2020 p. 2987-2994
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  • Description: Features representation leverages the great power in network analysis tasks. However, most features are discrete which poses tremendous challenges to effective use. Recently, increasing attention has been paid on network feature learning, which could map discrete features to continued space. Unfortunately, current studies fail to fully preserve the structural information in the feature space due to random negative sampling strategy during training. To tackle this problem, we study the problem of feature learning and novelty propose a force-based graph learning model named GForce inspired by the spring-electrical model. GForce assumes that nodes are in attractive forces and repulsive forces, thus leading to the same representation with the original structural information in feature learning. Comprehensive experiments on three benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework. Furthermore, GForce opens up opportunities to use physics models to model node interaction for graph learning. © 2020 IEEE.

CRI : measuring city infection risk amid COVID-19

- Liu, Mingliang, Yu, Shuo, Chu, Xinbei, Xia, Feng

  • Authors: Liu, Mingliang , Yu, Shuo , Chu, Xinbei , Xia, Feng
  • Date: 2020
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: 2020 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering, CSDE 2020
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  • Description: The outbreak of COVID-19 has brought incalculable economy and life losses. Accurately assessing the risk of a certain city can help formulate effective measures to prevent and control COVID-19 in time. It will be of great significance for us to measure city risk in infection amid epidemics. City risk in infection is related to many factors. To address this problem, this paper proposes city risk index (CRI) to measure city risk in infection, considering the following four perspectives: Economy (i.e., GDP and FCI), technology (i.e., education and innovation), population, and geographical position (i.e., latitude and longitude). The experimental results show that CRI can be effectively employed to measure city risk in infection amid COVID-19 as well as other similar epidemics. The proposed CRI can be used to guide policymakers for better emergency management policies making when coping with COVID-19. © 2020 IEEE.
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