Call for Papers

1. ✴ International Workshop on Web Behavior Analytics (WBA13), co-located with the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2013). Niagara Falls, Canada, August 25-28, 2013.
   

2. ✴ AAAI Fall Symposium on Behavioral Web Analytics (BWA13) held at AAAI Fall 2013 Symposium series, Arlington, Virginia, November 15-17, 2013.
   

3. ✴ Call for tutorials - IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) 2013.
   

News & Publications

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

profession but also show future potential to step up as a leader

in Arkansas business or politics to highlight their accomplishments

within their businesses, organizations or community.

[UALR Article]

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 Networks meet Mobile Networks in

IEEE Communications Magazine

Co-Editors: Seshadri Mohan and Ashutosh Dutta.

Volume 50, Issue 6, June 2012. 

UALR Website

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

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New Book on “Modeling and Data Mining in Blogosphere”

by Morgan & Claypool publishers, 2009.

ISBN: 9781598299083 (paperback)

ISBN: 9781598299090 (ebook)

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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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Research Interests

My research interests include the following topics that are partly funded by the US Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation’s ‘Human Centered Computing’ and ‘Social Computational Systems’ programs.

1. 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;
   

2. 2.Data Mining and Machine Learning;
   

3. 3.Semantic Web Mining; and
   

4. 4.Privacy

Teaching

Classes in Fall 2013 - IFSC 1310 Internet Technologies

                                   - IFSC 3360 Systems Analysis and Design

Classes in Spring 2013 - IFSC 4360/5360 Social Computing

                                        - IFSC 7310 Information System Analysis

(For courses taught in previous semesters, please see the Teaching page)

Office Hours: TR 03:00PM - 04:00PM, EIT 553

                         Other times by appointment