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Call for Papers
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✴ Edited book on Online Collective Action: Dynamics of the Crowd in Social Media for Lecture Notes in Social Networks series by Springer. To appear in 2012, Co-Editors: Rolf T. Wigand and Merlyna Lim.
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✴ Special issue on Social Networks Meet Mobile Networks for IEEE Communications Magazine. To appear in 2012, Co-Editors: Seshadri Mohan and Ashutosh Dutta.
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✴ Special issue on Social Computing and its Applications for The Computer Journal by Oxford Journals. To appear in 2013, Co-Editors: Aoying Zhou and Guandong Xu.
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Recognized as one of “The New Influentials: 20 In Their 20s”
by Arkansas Business for being among creative and talented
individuals who have found not only early success in their
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National Science Foundation (NSF) recently sponsored our research on “Cyber-collective Movements: Novel Socio-computational Approaches in Studying the Blogosphere”. The research is funded in part by the National Science Foundation’s Social-Computational Systems (SoCS) Program and Human Centered Computing Program. Research mentioned in news by: UALR News, Newswise
Tutorial slides on “Understanding Social Media: Tools, Applications, and Processes”delivered at the International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction (SBP11), March 28-31, 2011. College Park, Maryland are available. [Slides]
Best Paper Award for Context Based Privacy Model. In the 2nd International Symposium on Privacy and Security Applications (PSA-10) held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk, and Trust (PASSAT 2010). pp.1050-1055. August 20-22, 2010, Minneapolis, MN. Research mentioned in news by: NSF Science360, US News, UALR News, PhysOrg, Dr Dobbs Journal
Special Issue on Social Computational Systems in
Elsevier Journal of Computational Science
Co-Editors: Xiaowei Xu.
Volume 2, Issue 3, 2011.
Special Issue on Social Computing in Blogosphere in
IEEE Internet Computing Magazine
Co-Editors: Huan Liu, Philip S. Yu, and Torsten Suel.
Issue: March-April 2010.
New Book on “Social Computing in Blogosphere:
Challenges, Methodologies, and Opportunities”
by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing AG & Co. KG, 2010.
ISBN: 9783838328218
New Book on “Modeling and Data Mining in Blogosphere”
by Morgan & Claypool publishers, 2009.
ISBN: 9781598299083 (paperback)
ISBN: 9781598299090 (ebook)
Online - Book website |
Morgan & Claypool publishers book website | Track Citation
Research on Blog Mining has been acknowledged by the
School of Computing and Informatics,
Arizona State University as ground breaking.
Nitin Agarwal
Assistant Professor
Information Science Department
Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
2801 S. University Ave.
Little Rock, AR 72204-1099
Phone: (501) 683-7155, Fax: (501) 683-7049
Email: nxagarwal@ualr.edu
Office: EIT 553
I joined the Information Science Department at UALR as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2009. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the School of Computing and Informatics, Arizona State University in August, 2009. I received my Bachelors in Technology in Information Technology from the Indian Institute of Information Technology in May 2003.
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1.Social Computing, Knowledge extraction in Social Media & Web 2.0, Modeling and evaluation of phenomena like Influence, Trust, Familiar Strangers, Collective Wisdom, Community Discovery, BlogTrackers tool;
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2.Data Mining and Machine Learning;
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3.Semantic Web Mining; and
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4.Privacy
Classes in Spring 2012 - IFSC 4360/5360 Social Computing
- IFSC 7310 Information System Analysis
Classes in Fall 2011 - IFSC 3360 Systems Analysis and Design
- IFSC 7320 Database System/Information Architecture
(For courses taught in previous semesters, please see the Teaching page)
Office Hours: TR 03:00PM - 04:00PM, EIT 553
Other times by appointment
