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LARC Research Publications

The collection contains the publications by the researchers associated with the Living Analytics Research Centre (LARC). Established since 2011, LARC aims to innovate new technologies and software platforms that are relevant to Singapore’s Smart Nation efforts. LARC research areas include urban sensing with interactions with urban services, social sensing with gathering of data from social media, personal apps and devices, socio-physical analytics, and social activation.

Submissions from 2014 2014

Hybrid Metaheuristics for Solving the Quadratic Assignment Problem and the Generalized Quadratic Assignment Problem, Aldy GUNAWAN, Kien Ming Ng, Kim Leng Poh, and Hoong Chuin LAU Conference Proceeding Article

A simple polynomial-time randomized distributed algorithm for connected row convex constraints, T. K. Satish KUMAR, NGUYEN DUC THIEN, William YEOH, and Sven KOENIG Conference Proceeding Article

Building algorithm portfolios for memetic algorithms, Mustafa MISIR, Stephanus Daniel HANDOKO, and Hoong Chuin LAU Conference Proceeding Article

Decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning in average-reward dynamic DCOPs, Duc Thien Nguyen, William YEOH, Hoong Chuin LAU, Shlomo Zilberstein, and Chongjie ZHANG Conference Proceeding Article

Lifetime lexical variation in social media, Lizi LIAO, Jing JIANG, Ying DING, Heyan HUANG, and Ee Peng LIM Conference Proceeding Article

On predicting religion labels in microblogging networks, Minh Thap NGUYEN and Ee Peng LIM Conference Proceeding Article

Reinforcement learning for adaptive operator selection in memetic search applied to Quadratic Assignment Problem, Stephanus Daniel HANDOKO, Duc Thien Nguyen, Zhi YUAN, and Hoong Chuin LAU Conference Proceeding Article

Understanding the paradigm shift to computational social science in the presence of big data, Ray M. CHANG, Robert J. KAUFFMAN, and Young Ok KWON Journal Article

HYDRA: Large-scale Social Identity Linkage via Heterogeneous Behavior Modeling, Siyuan Liu, Shuhui Wang, Feida ZHU, Jinbo Zhang, and Ramayya Krishnan Conference Proceeding Article

On modeling brand preferences in item adoptions, Minh Duc LUU, Ee Peng LIM, and Freddy Chong-Tat CHUA Conference Proceeding Article

An Integrated Model for User Attribute Discovery: A Case Study on Political Affiliation Identification, Swapna Gottipati, Minghui Qiu, Liu Yang, Feida ZHU, and Jing JIANG Conference Proceeding Article

A quantitative analysis of decision process in social groups using human trajectories, Truc Viet LE, Siyuan LIU, Hoong Chuin LAU, and Ramayya KRISHNAN Conference Proceeding Article

On Understanding Diffusion Dynamics of Patrons at a Theme Park, Jiali DU, Akshat KUMAR, and Pradeep Reddy VARAKANTHAM Conference Proceeding Article

Persistent Community Detection in Dynamic Social Networks, Siyuan LIU, Shuhui WANG, and Ramayya KRISHNAN Conference Proceeding Article

ShopProfiler: Profiling Shops with Crowdsourcing Data, Xiaonan GUO, Eddie C. L. CHAN, Ce LIU, Kaishun WU, Siyuan LIU, and Lionel NI Conference Proceeding Article

Visual Analysis of Uncertainty in Trajectories, Lu LU, Nan CAO, Siyuan LIU, Lionel NI, Xiaoru YUAN, and Huamin QU Conference Proceeding Article

Do you know the speaker?: An online experiment with authority messages on event websites, Kwan-Hui LIM, Binyan JIANG, Ee Peng LIM, and Achananuparp Palakorn Conference Proceeding Article

Modeling Contextual Agreement in Preferences, Ha Loc DO and Hady Wirawan LAUW Conference Proceeding Article

On finding the point where there is no return: Turning point mining on game data, Wei GONG, Ee Peng LIM, Feida ZHU, Achananuparp PALAKORN, and David LO Conference Proceeding Article

On modeling community behaviors and sentiments in microblogging, Tuan Anh HOANG, William COHEN, and Ee Peng LIM Conference Proceeding Article

Time-Series Data Mining in Transportation: A Case Study on Singapore Public Train Commuter Travel Patterns, Tin Seong KAM and Roy Ka Wei LEE Conference Paper

Predicting response in mobile advertising with Hierarchical Importance-Aware Factorization Machine, Richard Jayadi OENTARYO, Ee Peng LIM, Jia Wei LOW, David LO, and Michael FINEGOLD Conference Proceeding Article

How Can Consumer Preferences Be Leveraged for Targeted Upselling in Cable TV Services?, Bing Tian DAI Conference Paper

How Can Substitution and Complementarity Effects Be Leveraged for Broadband Internet Services Strategy?, Gwangjae JUNG, Young Soo KIM, and Robert J. Kauffman Conference Proceeding Article

Risk minimization of disjunctive temporal problem with uncertainty, Hoong Chuin LAU and Tuan Anh HOANG Conference Proceeding Article

Submissions from 2013 2013

An Agent-based Simulation Approach to Experience Management in Theme Parks, Shih-Fen CHENG, Larry Junjie LIN, Jiali DU, Hoong Chuin LAU, and Pradeep Reddy VARAKANTHAM Conference Proceeding Article

Hibernating Process: Modeling Mobile Calls at Multiple Scales, Siyuan LIU, Lei LI, and Ramayya KRISHNAN Conference Proceeding Article

Modeling Preferences with Availability Constraints, Bingtian DAI and Hady W. LAUW Conference Proceeding Article

Modeling Temporal Adoptions Using Dynamic Matrix Factorization, Freddy Chong-Tat CHUA, Richard Jayadi Oentaryo, and Ee Peng LIM Conference Proceeding Article

TopicSketch: Real-time Bursty Topic Detection from Twitter, Wei XIE, Feida ZHU, Jing JIANG, Ee Peng LIM, and Ke WANG Conference Proceeding Article

Budgeted personalized incentive approaches for smoothing congestion in resource networks, Pradeep VARAKANTHAM, Na FU, William YEOH, Shih-Fen CHENG, and Hoong Chuin LAU Conference Proceeding Article

Information vs interaction: An alternative user ranking model for social networks, Wei XIE, Ai Phuong HOANG, Feida ZHU, and Ee Peng LIM Conference Proceeding Article

Mining fraudulent patterns in online advertising, Richard J. OENTARYO and Ee-peng LIM Conference Paper

Social sensing for urban crisis management: The case of Singapore Haze, Philips Kokoh PRASETYO, Ming GAO, Ee Peng LIM, and Christie N. SCOLLON Conference Proceeding Article

Using Micro-Reviews to Select an Efficient Set of Reviews, Thanh-Son NGUYEN, Hady W. LAUW, and Panayiotis TSAPARAS Conference Proceeding Article

What you want is not what you get: Predicting sharing policies for text-based content on Facebook, Arunesh SINHA, Li YAN, and Lujo BAUER Conference Proceeding Article

A Unified Model for Topics, Events and Users on Twitter, Qiming DIAO and Jing JIANG Conference Proceeding Article

Learning Topics and Positions from Debatepedia, Swapna GOTTOPATI, Minghui QIU, Yanchuan SIM, Jing JIANG, and Noah SMITH Conference Proceeding Article

An analysis of post-selection in automatic configuration, Zhi YUAN, Thomas St\303\274tzle, Marco A. Montes De Oca, Hoong Chuin LAU, and Mauro Birattari Conference Proceeding Article

Adaptive collective routing using gaussian process dynamic congestion models, Siyuan LIU, Yisong YUE, and Ramayya KRISHNAN Conference Proceeding Article

An empirical analysis of a network of expertise, LE TRUC VIET and Minh Thap NGUYEN Conference Proceeding Article

FloTra: Flower-shape trajectory mining for instance-specific parameter tuning, Lindawati LINDAWATI, Feida ZHU, and Hoong Chuin LAU Conference Paper

Improving Patient Length-of-Stay in Emergency Department Through Dynamic Resource Allocation Policies, Kar Way TAN, Wei Hao TAN, and Hoong Chuin LAU Conference Proceeding Article

Interacting Knapsack Problem in Designing Resource Bundles, Truong Huy D. NGUYEN, Pradeep Reddy VARAKANTHAM, Hoong Chuin LAU, and Shih-Fen CHENG Conference Proceeding Article

Multi-agent Orienteering Problem with Time-dependent Capacity Constraints, Cen CHEN, Shih-Fen CHENG, and Hoong Chuin LAU Conference Paper

“Network-Theoretic” Queuing Delay Estimation in Theme Park Attractions, Ajay ARAVAMUDHAN, Archan MISRA, and Hoong Chuin LAU Conference Proceeding Article

Politics, sharing and emotion in microblogs, Tuan-Anh HOANG, William COHEN, Ee Peng LIM, Doug PIERCE, and David REDLAWSK Conference Proceeding Article

The User’s Communication Patterns on a Mobile Social Network Site, Youngsoo KIM Conference Proceeding Article

Reviving dormant ties in an online social network experiment, Ee Peng LIM, Denzil CORREA, David LO, Michael FINEGOLD, and Feida ZHU Conference Proceeding Article

A Direct Mining Approach To Efficient Constrained Graph Pattern Discovery, Feida ZHU, Zequn ZHANG, and Qiang QU Conference Proceeding Article

HUNTS: A Trajectory Recommendation System for Effective and Efficient Hunting of Taxi Passengers, Ye DING, Siyuan LIU, Jiansu PU, and Lionel NI Conference Proceeding Article

Real Time Event Detection in Twitter, Xun WANG, Feida ZHU, Jing JIANG, and Sujian LI Conference Proceeding Article

Think Twice before you Share: Analyzing Privacy Leakage under Privacy Control in Online Social Networks, YAN LI, Yingjiu LI, Qiang YAN, and Robert H. DENG Conference Proceeding Article

T-Watcher: A New Visual Analytic System for Effective Traffic Surveillance, Jiansu PU, Siyuan LIU, Ye DING, Huamin QU, and Lionel NI Conference Proceeding Article

Understanding Sequential Decisions via Inverse Reinforcement Learning, Siyuan LIU, Miguel ARAUJO, Emma BRUNSKILL, Rosaldo ROSSETTI, Joao BARROS, and Ramayya KRISHNAN Conference Proceeding Article

Anonymous authentication of visitors for mobile crowd sensing at amusement parks, Divyan KONIDALA, Robert H. DENG, Yingjiu LI, Hoong Chuin LAU, and Stephen FIENBERG Conference Proceeding Article

Distributed Gibbs: A memory-bounded sampling-based DCOP algorithm, Duc Thien NGUYEN, William YEOH, and Hoong Chuin LAU Conference Proceeding Article

Impact of Multimedia in Sina Weibo: Popularity and Life Span, Xun ZHAO, Feida ZHU, Weining QIAN, and Aoying ZHOU Conference Proceeding Article

It Is Not Just What We Say, But How We Say Them: LDA-based Behavior-Topic Model, Minghui QIU, Feida ZHU, and Jing JIANG Conference Proceeding Article

R-energy for evaluating robustness of dynamic networks, Ming GAO, Ee Peng LIM, and David LO Conference Proceeding Article

Retweeting: An act of viral users, susceptible users, or viral topics?, Tuan-Anh HOANG and Ee Peng LIM Conference Proceeding Article

Dynamic label propagation in social networks, Juan DU, Feida ZHU, and Ee Peng LIM Conference Proceeding Article

Modeling Social Information Learning among Taxi Drivers, Siyuan LIU, Ramayya KRISHNAN, Emma BRUNSKILL, and Lionel NI Conference Proceeding Article

TwiCube: A real-time Twitter online community analysis tool, Juan DU, Wei XIE, Cheng LI, Feida ZHU, and Ee Peng LIM Conference Proceeding Article

Predicting project outcome leveraging socio-technical network patterns, Didi SURIAN, Yuan TIAN, David LO, Hong CHENG, and Ee Peng LIM Conference Proceeding Article

Do Household Cable TV Viewing Patterns Demonstrate Efficiency and Concentration?, Rae CHANG, Pulak GHOSH, Gwangjae JUNG, Robert J. KAUFFMAN, and Peiran ZHANG Conference Paper

Guardian: Hypervisor as Security Foothold for Personal Computers, Yueqiang CHENG and Xuhua DING Conference Proceeding Article

How Strong Are the Effects of Technological Disruption? Smartphones' Impacts on Internet and Cable TV Services Consumption, M. R. CHANG, Robert J. KAUFFMAN, and K.S. KIM Conference Proceeding Article

The impact of smartphone adoption on consumers’ switching behavior in broadband and cable TV services, Gwangjae JUNG Conference Proceeding Article

Utility of Potential Misdiagnoses in Predicting Foodborne Outbreaks, Lucia LUCIA, Artur DUBRAWSKI, and Lujie CHEN Conference Proceeding Article

Submissions from 2012 2012

A survey of recommender systems in Twitter, Su Mon KYWE, Ee Peng LIM, and Feida ZHU Conference Proceeding Article

Community-based classification of noun phrases in Twitter, Freddy Chong Tat CHUA, William W. COHEN, Justin BETTERRIDGE, and Ee-peng LIM Conference Proceeding Article

Extracting and Normalizing Entity-actions from Users' Comments, Swapna GOTTIPATI and Jing JIANG Conference Proceeding Article

Finding Thoughtful Comments from Social Media, GOTTIPATI Swapna and Jing JIANG Conference Proceeding Article

On recommending hashtags in Twitter networks, Su Mon KYWE, Tuan-Anh HOANG, Ee Peng LIM, and Feida ZHU Conference Proceeding Article

Credit card program value maximization with promotion density for product discounts in shopping malls, Rae M. CHANG, Robert John KAUFFMAN, and Kwansoo KIM Conference Paper

OTO: Online Trust Oracle for User-Centric Trust Establishment, Tiffany Hyun-Jin KIM, Payas GUPTA, Jun HAN, Emmanuel Owusu, Jason Hong, Adrian Perrig, and Debin GAO Conference Proceeding Article

Automatic classification of software related microblogs, Philips Kokoh PRASETYO, David LO, Achananuparp PALAKORN, Yuan TIAN, and Ee Peng LIM Conference Proceeding Article

In-game action list segmentation and labeling in real-time strategy games, Wei GONG, Ee-Peng LIM, Palakorn ACHANANUPARP, Feida ZHU, David LO, and Freddy Chong-Tat CHUA Conference Proceeding Article

Observatory of trends in software related microblogs, Achananuparp PALAKORN, Nelman Lubis IBRAHIM, Yuan TIAN, David LO, and Ee Peng LIM Conference Proceeding Article

Collective churn prediction in social network, Richard J. OENTARYO, Ee-peng LIM, David LO, Feida ZHU, and Philips K. PRASETYO Conference Proceeding Article

Dynamic Stochastic Orienteering Problems for Risk-Aware Applications, Hoong Chuin LAU, William YEOH, Pradeep VARAKANTHAM, and Duc Thien NGUYEN Conference Proceeding Article

Measurement-driven performance analysis of indoor femtocellular networks, Trung-Tuan LUONG, Vigneshwaran SUBBARAJU, Archan MISRA, and Srinivasan SESHAN Conference Proceeding Article

Shortest Path Computation with No Information Leakage, Kyriakos MOURATIDIS and Man Lung YIU Conference Proceeding Article

Calibrating Large Scale Vehicle Trajectory Data, Siyuan Liu, Ce Liu, Qiong Luo, Lionel Ni, and Ramayya Krishnan

Detecting Anomalous Twitter Users by Extreme Group Behaviors, Hanbo DAI, Ee-peng LIM, Feida ZHU, and Hwee Hwa PANG Conference Proceeding Article

Finding Bursty Topics From Microblogs, Qiming DIAO, Jing JIANG, Feida ZHU, and Ee Peng LIM Conference Proceeding Article

Topic discovery from tweet replies, Bingtian DAI, Ee Peng LIM, and Philips Kokoh PRASETYO Conference Proceeding Article

Distributed Incomplete Pattern Matching via a NovelWeighted Bloom Filter, Siyuan LIU, Lei KANG, Lei CHEN, and Lionel NI Conference Proceeding Article

Energy-efficient Continuous Activity Recognition on Mobile Phones: An Activity-adaptive Approach, Zhixian YAN, Vigneshwaran SUBBARAJU, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Archan MISRA, and Karl Aberer Conference Proceeding Article

Lagrangian Relaxation for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Planning, Geoffrey J. Gordon, Pradeep VARAKANTHAM, William YEOH, Hoong Chuin LAU, Ajay Srinivasan Aravamudhan, and Shih-Fen CHENG

Modeling diffusion in social networks using network properties, Duc Minh LUU, Ee Peng LIM, Tuan Anh HOANG, and Chong Tat Freddy CHUA Conference Proceeding Article

Prioritized Shaping of Models for Solving DEC-POMDPs, Pradeep Reddy VARAKANTHAM, William YEOH, Prasanna Velagapudi, and Paul Scerri Conference Proceeding Article

Stochastic dominance in stochastic DCOPs for risk-sensitive applications, NGUYEN DUC THIEN, William YEOH, and Hoong Chuin LAU Conference Proceeding Article

Virality and susceptibility in information diffusions, Tuan-Anh HOANG and Ee Peng LIM Conference Proceeding Article

What does software engineering community microblog about?, Yuan TIAN, Palakorn Achananuparp, Ibrahim Nelman Lubis, David LO, and Ee Peng LIM Conference Proceeding Article

When a friend in Twitter is a friend in life, Wei XIE, Cheng LI, Feida ZHU, Ee-Peng LIM, and Xueqing GONG Conference Proceeding Article

Modeling Latent Relationships in the myGamma Network, Mauricio Sadinle, Mike Finegold, Stephen E. Fienberg, and Ee-Peng Lim

HuMan: Creating Memorable Fingerprints of Mobile Users, Gupta PAYAS, Kiat Wee TAN, Narayanasamy RAMASUBBU, David LO, Debin GAO, and Rajesh Krishna BALAN Conference Proceeding Article

Mitigating the true cost of advertisement-supported "free" mobile applications, Azeem J. KHAN, Vigneshwaran SUBBARAJU, Archan MISRA, and Srinivasan SESHAN Conference Proceeding Article