Publications

ADVISE

• Ahn, J., and Brusilovsky, P. (2009) Adaptive Visualization of Search Results: Bringing User Models to Visual Analytics. Information Visualization 8 (3), 167-179.
• Ahn, J., and Brusilovsky, P. (2007) From user query to user model and back: Adaptive relevance-based visualization for information foraging. In: T. Y. Lin, et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Web Intelligence, WI '07, Silicon Valley, CA, USA, November 2-5, 2007, IEEE, pp. 706-712.
• Ahn, J.-w., Brusilovsky, P., and Sosnovsky, S. (2006) QuizVIBE: Accessing Educational Objects with Adaptive Relevance-Based Visualization. In: T. C. Reeves and S. F. Yamashita (eds.) Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning, E-Learn 2006, Honolulu, HI, USA, October 13-17, 2006, AACE, pp. 2707-2714.
• Brusilovsky, P., Ahn, J., Dumitriu, T., and Yudelson, M. (2006) Adaptive knowledge-based visualization for accessing educational examples. In: B. Ebad, et al. (eds.) Proceedings of Information Visualization, London, UK, July 5-7, 2006, IEEE, pp. 142-147

AnnotEx

• Hsiao, I. and Brusilvsky, P. (2011) The Role of Community Feedback in the Student Example Authoring Process: an Evaluation of AnnotEx, British Journal of Educational Technology, Vol 42, Issue 3, Pages 482 - 499 DOI
• Hsiao, I. & Brusilovsky. P. (2008). Modeling Peer Review in Example Annotation. ICCE, The 16th International Conference on Computers in Education, Taipei, Taiwan, October 27- 31, 2008, ICCE URL PDF
• Brusilovsky, P., Hsiao, I. & Yuldelson, M. (2008) Annotated Program Examples as First Class Objects in an Educational Digital Library, JCDL 2008 DOI
• Hsiao, I. & Brusilovsky, P. (2007) Collaborative Example Authoring System: The Value of Re-annotation based on Community Feedback,In: J. Nall and R. Robson (eds.) Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning, E-Learn 2007,Quebec City, Canada, October 15-19, 2007, AACE URL PDF

ASSIST

• Freyne, J., Farzan, R., and Coyle, M. (2007). Toward the exploitation of social access patterns for recommendation. RecSys 2007.
• Farzan, R., Coyle, M., Freyne, J., Brusilovsky, P., and Smyth, P. (2007). ASSIST: Adaptive Social Support for Information Space Traversal. Hypertext 2007.
• Freyne J., Farzan R., Brusilovsky P., Smyth B., and Coyle M. (2007). Collecting Community Wisdom: Integrating Social Search & Social Navigation. In Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

Conference Navigator

• López C., Farzan R., Sahebi S., and Brusilovsky P. What Influences the Decision to Participate in Audience-bounded Online Communities. iConference 2013.
• López C., Farzan R., and Brusilovsky P. Personalized Incremental Users' Engagement: Driving Contributions One Step Forward. ACM GROUP 2012.
• Farzan R., and Brusilovsky P. Where did the Researchers Go? Supporting Social Navigation at a Large Academic Conference. Hypertext 2008.

CourseAgent

• Farzan R. & Brusilovsky P. (2006). Social Navigation Support in a Course Recommendation System. In proceedings of 4th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems.

CUMULATE

• Zadorozhny, V., Yudelson, M., and Brusilovsky, P. (2008) A Framework for Performance Evaluation of User Modeling Servers for Web Applications. Web Intelligence and Agent Systems 6(2), 175-191. DOI
• Yudelson, M., Brusilovsky, P., and Zadorozhny, V. (2007) A user modeling server for contemporary adaptive hypermedia: An evaluation of the push approach to evidence propagation. In Conati, C., McCoy, K. F., and Paliouras, G. Eds., User Modeling, volume 4511 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp 27-36. Springer, 2007. PDF DOI
• Brusilovsky, P., Sosnovsky, S. A., and Shcherbinina, O. (2005). User Modeling in a Distributed E-Learning Architecture. Paper presented at the 10th International Conference on User Modeling (UM 2005), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 24-29, 2005. PDF DOI

Knowledge Sea II and AnnotatEd

• Lin, Y., Brusilovsky, P.,& He, D. (2010) Improving Self-Organizing Information Maps as Navigational Tools: A Semantic Approach. Online Information Review (The international journal of digital information research and use) (in press).
• Farzan, R. and Brusilovsky P. (2008). AnnotatEd: A Social Navigation and Annotation Service for Web-based Educational Resources. Journal of the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (NRHM)
• Ahn, J., Farzan, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2006) Social Search in the Context of Social Navigation. Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management 23(2):147-165.
• Bateman S., Farzan R., Brusilovsky P., and McCalla G. (2006) OATS: The Open Annotation and Tagging System. In Proceedings 3rd annual e-learning conference on Intelligent Interactive Learning Object Repositories
• Farzan R. & Brusilovsky P. (2006). AnnotatEd: A Social Navigation and Annotation Service for Web-based Educational Resources. In Proceedings of E-Learn 2006--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education.Winner of outstanding paper award.
• Mertens R., Farzan R.,and Brusilovsky P. (2006) Social Navigation in Web Lectures. In proceedings of Seventeenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia(short paper).
• Farzan, R. & Brusilovsky P. (2005). Social Navigation Support through Annotation-Based Group Modeling. In proceedings of 10th International Conference on User Modeling.
• Brusilovsky P., Farzan R. & Ahn J. (2005). Comprehensive Personalized Information Access in an Educational Digital Library. In proceedings of Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.
• Brusilovsky, P., Chavan, G., Farzan, R. (2004). Social Adaptive Navigation Support for Open Corpus Electronic Textbooks - In: P.De Bra (ed.) Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH'2004), Eindhoven, the Netherlands

NameSieve

• Ahn, J.-w., Brusilovsky, P., Grady, J., He, D., and Florian, R. (2010) Semantic Annotation Based Exploratory Search for Information Analysts. Information Processing and Management 46 (4), 383-402.

• Lin, Y., Ahn, J.-w., Brusilovsky, P., He, D., and Real, W. (2010) ImageSieve: Exploratory Search of Museum Archives with Named Entity-Based Faceted Browsing. In: C. Marshall, E. Toms and A. Grove (eds.) Proceedings of 2010 Annual Meeting of The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T 2010), Pittsburgh, PA, October 22-27, 2010, pp. Art. 38, also available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/meet.14504701217/abstract.

PERSEUS

• Yudelson, M. (2010) Providing Service-based Personalization in an Adaptive Hypermedia System. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. ETD
• Yudelson, M. and Brusilovsky, P.. (2008). Adaptive Link Annotation in Distributed Hypermedia Systems: The Evaluation of a Service-Based Approach. In W. Nejdl, J. Kay, P. Pu, and E. Herder (Eds.), 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH 2008), (pp. 245-254). DOI
• Zadorozhny, V., Yudelson, M., and Brusilovsky, P. (2008) A Framework for Performance Evaluation of User Modeling Servers for Web Applications. Web Intelligence and Agent Systems 6(2), 175-191. DOI
• Yudelson, M., Brusilovsky, P., and Zadorozhny, V. (2007) A user modeling server for contemporary adaptive hypermedia: An evaluation of the push approach to evidence propagation. In Conati, C., McCoy, K. F., and Paliouras, G. Eds., User Modeling, volume 4511 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp 27-36. Springer, 2007. PDF DOI

PittCult

• Lee, D. H. (2008) PITTCULT: Trust-based Cultural Event Recommender, Proceedings of Doctoral Symposium on the 2nd ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 23 ~ 25, 2008
• Lee, D. H. (2008) PITTCULT: Recommender System using Trusted Human Network, Student Research Competition in Hypertext 2008, Pittsburgh PA., USA, June 19 ~ 21, 2008, Third Prize Winner of ACM Student Research Competition in Hypertext 2008 & Finalist for the Grand Prize of ACM SRC sponsored by Microsoft Research Presentation, pdf

Proactive

• Lee, D. H. & Brusilovsky, P. (2007) Fighting Information Overflow with Personalized Comprehensive Information Access: A Proactive Job Recommender, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS '07), Athens, Greece, June 19 ~ 25, 2007
• Lee, D. H. & Brusilovsky, P. (In progress) Proactive: Comprehensive Access of Job Information

Progressor

• Bakalov, F., Hsiao, I-H., Brusilovsky, P., and König-Ries, B. (2011) Visualizing Student Models for Social Learning with Parallel IntrospectiveViews. In: Proceedings of Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and Semantic Web at the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2011), Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, US, February 13, 2011
• Hsiao, I-H., Bakalov, F., Brusilovsky, P., and König-Ries, B. (2011) Open Social Student Modeling: Visualizing Student Models with Parallel IntrospectiveViews. Proceedings of 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2011), Girona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011, Springer, pp.171-182 DOI
• Bakalov, F., Hsiao, I-H., Brusilovsky, P., and König-Ries, B. (2011) Progressor: Personalized visual access to programming problems, IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, September 18-22, 2011, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• Hsiao, I-H., Guerra, J., Parra, D., Bakalov, F., König-Ries, B., and Brusilovsky, P. (2012) Comparative Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning. International Working Conference Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI 2012, Capri, Italy, May 21-25, 2012
• Hsiao, I-H., Bakalov, F., Brusilovsky, P., and König-Ries, B. (2013) Open Social Student Modeling for Personalized E-Learning. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 19(2), 112-131. URL

ProgressorPlus

• Hsiao, I-H. and Brusilovsky, P. (2012) Motivational Social Visualizations for Personalized E-learning, In: Proceedings of 7th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Education (ECTEL), ECTEL 2012, Saarbrücken, Germany, September 18-21, 2012, Springer-Verlag, Volume 7563/2012, pp.153-165.
• Hsiao, I-H. (2012). Navigation Support and Social Visualization For Personalized E-learning (Doctoral dissertation, University of Pittsburgh).

QuizJET

• Hsiao, I., Brusilovsky, P. & Sosnovsky, S. (2008). Web-based Parameterized Questions for Object-Oriented Programming. Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning, E-Learn 2008,Las Vegas, USA, November 17-21, 2008, p. 3728-3735.
• Hsiao, I., Sosnovsky, S and Brusilovsky, P. (2009). Extending Parameterized Problem-Tracing Questions for Java with Personalized Guidance. Proceedings of 14th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE'2009, Paris, France, July 3-8, 2009, ACM Press, pp.392-392 DOI
• Hsiao, I., Sosnovsky, S and Brusilovsky, P. (2009). Adaptive Navigation Support for Parameterized Questions in Object-Oriented Programming. In: Proceedings of 4th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Education (ECTEL), ECTEL 2009, Nice, France, September 29th - October 2nd, 2009, Springer-Verlag, pp.88-98 DOI
• Hsiao, I., Sosnovsky,S. and Brusilvsky, P. (2010) Guiding Students to the Right Questions: Adaptive Navigation Support in an E-learning System for Java Programming, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Volume 26 Issue 4, Pages 270 - 283 DOI

TaskSieve

• Ahn, J., Brusilovsky, P., He, D., Grady, J., and Li, Q. (2008) Personalized Web Exploration with Task Models. In: Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web, WWW '08, Beijing, China, April 21-25, 2008.

YourNews

• Ahn, J., Brusilovsky, P., Grady, J., He, D., and Syn, S. Y. (2007) Open user profiles for adaptive news systems: help or harm? In: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web, WWW '07, Banff, Canada, May 8-12, 2007, ACM Press, pp. 11-20.