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  • 2014

    The wisdom of minority: Unsupervised slot filling validation based on multi-dimensional truth-finding

    Yu, D., Huang, H., Cassidy, T., Ji, H., Wang, C., Zhi, S., Han, J., Voss, C. & Magdon-Ismail, M., 2014, COLING 2014 - 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2014: Technical Papers. Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL Anthology, p. 1567-1578 12 p. (COLING 2014 - 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2014: Technical Papers).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Top-K interesting subgraph discovery in information networks

    Gupta, M., Gao, J., Yan, X., Cam, H. & Han, J., 2014, 2014 IEEE 30th International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2014. IEEE Computer Society, p. 820-831 12 p. 6816703. (Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Towards scalable critical alert mining

    Zong, B., Wu, Y., Song, J., Singh, A. K., Cam, H., Han, J. & Yan, X., 2014, KDD 2014 - Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1057-1066 10 p. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • 2013

    AMETHYST: A system for mining and exploring topical hierarchies of heterogeneous data

    Danilevsky, M., Wang, C., Tao, F., Nguyen, S., Chen, G., Desai, N., Wang, L. & Han, J., Aug 11 2013, KDD 2013 - 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Parekh, R., He, J., Inderjit, D. S., Bradley, P., Koren, Y., Ghani, R., Senator, T. E., Grossman, R. L. & Uthurusamy, R. (eds.). Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1458-1461 4 p. 2487716. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; vol. Part F128815).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • An exploration of discussion threads in social news sites: A case study of the Reddit community

    Weninger, T., Zhu, X. A. & Han, J., 2013, Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 579-583 5 p. (Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • A phrase mining framework for recursive construction of a topical hierarchy

    Wang, C., Danilevsky, M., Desai, N., Zhang, Y., Nguyen, P., Taula, T. & Han, J., Aug 11 2013, KDD 2013 - 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Parekh, R., He, J., Inderjit, D. S., Bradley, P., Koren, Y., Ghani, R., Senator, T. E., Grossman, R. L. & Uthurusamy, R. (eds.). Association for Computing Machinery, p. 437-445 9 p. 2487631. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; vol. Part F128815).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • A text cube approach to human, social and cultural behavior in the Twitter stream

    Liu, X., Tang, K., Hancock, J., Han, J., Song, M., Xu, R. & Pokorny, B., 2013, Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction - 6th International Conference, SBP 2013, Proceedings. p. 321-330 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 7812 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Community distribution outlier detection in heterogeneous information networks

    Gupta, M., Gao, J. & Han, J., 2013, Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2013, Proceedings. PART 1 ed. p. 557-573 17 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 8188 LNAI, no. PART 1).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

    Open Access
  • Content coverage maximization on word networks for hierarchical topic summarization

    Wang, C., Yu, X., Li, Y., Zhai, C. & Han, J., 2013, CIKM 2013 - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 249-258 10 p. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • EventCube: Multi-dimensional search and mining of structured and text data

    Tao, F., Lei, K. H., Han, J., Zhai, C. X., Cheng, X., Danilevsky, M., Desai, N., Ding, B., Ge, J., Ji, H., Kanade, R., Kao, A., Li, Q., Li, Y., Lin, C. X., Liu, J., Oza, N., Srivastava, A., Tjoelker, R. & Wang, C. & 2 others, Zhang, D. & Zhao, B., Aug 11 2013, KDD 2013 - 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Parekh, R., He, J., Inderjit, D. S., Bradley, P., Koren, Y., Ghani, R., Senator, T. E., Grossman, R. L. & Uthurusamy, R. (eds.). Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1494-1497 4 p. 2487718. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; vol. Part F128815).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Exploring and inferring user-user pseudo-friendship for sentiment analysis with heterogeneous networks

    Deng, H., Han, J., Li, H., Ji, H., Wang, H. & Lu, Y., 2013, Proceedings of the 2013 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM 2013. Ghosh, J., Obradovic, Z., Dy, J., Zhou, Z.-H., Kamath, C. & Parthasarathy, S. (eds.). Siam Society, p. 378-386 9 p. (Proceedings of the 2013 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM 2013).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Exploring structure and content on the web: Extraction and integration of the semi-structured web

    Weninger, T. & Han, J., 2013, WSDM 2013 - Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. p. 779-780 2 p. (WSDM 2013 - Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • gIceberg: Towards iceberg analysis in large graphs

    Li, N., Guan, Z., Ren, L., Wu, J., Han, J. & Yan, X., 2013, ICDE 2013 - 29th International Conference on Data Engineering. p. 1021-1032 12 p. 6544894. (Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Inferring human mobility patterns from taxicab location traces

    Ganti, R., Srivatsa, M., Ranganathan, A. & Han, J., 2013, UbiComp 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. p. 459-468 10 p. (UbiComp 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Large-scale spectral clustering on graphs

    Liu, J., Wang, C., Danilevsky, M. & Han, J., 2013, IJCAI 2013 - Proceedings of the 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. p. 1486-1492 7 p. (IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • MedRank: Discovering influential medical treatments from literature by information network analysis

    Chen, L., Li, X. & Han, J., 2013, Proceedings of the 24th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2013. Wang, H. & Zhang, R. (eds.). Australian Computer Society, p. 3-12 10 p. (Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series; vol. 137).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Mining collective intelligence in diverse groups

    Qi, G. J., Aggarwal, C. C., Han, J. & Huang, T., 2013, WWW 2013 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1041-1051 11 p. (WWW 2013 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Mining evidences for named entity disambiguation

    Li, Y., Wang, C., Han, F., Han, J., Roth, D. & Yan, X., Aug 11 2013, KDD 2013 - 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Parekh, R., He, J., Inderjit, D. S., Bradley, P., Koren, Y., Ghani, R., Senator, T. E., Grossman, R. L. & Uthurusamy, R. (eds.). Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1070-1078 9 p. 2487681. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; vol. Part F128815).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Mining lines in the sand: On trajectory discovery from untrustworthy data in cyber-physical system

    Tang, L. A., Yu, X., Gu, Q., Han, J., Leung, A. & La Porta, T., Aug 11 2013, KDD 2013 - 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Parekh, R., He, J., Inderjit, D. S., Bradley, P., Koren, Y., Ghani, R., Senator, T. E., Grossman, R. L. & Uthurusamy, R. (eds.). Association for Computing Machinery, p. 410-418 9 p. 2487585. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; vol. Part F128815).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Multi-view clustering via joint nonnegative matrix factorization

    Liu, J., Wang, C., Gao, J. & Han, J., 2013, Proceedings of the 2013 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM 2013. Ghosh, J., Obradovic, Z., Dy, J., Zhou, Z.-H., Kamath, C. & Parthasarathy, S. (eds.). Siam Society, p. 252-260 9 p. (Proceedings of the 2013 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM 2013).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • On detecting Association-Based Clique Outliers in heterogeneous information networks

    Gupta, M., Gao, J., Yan, X., Cam, H. & Han, J., 2013, Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 108-115 8 p. (Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • On the detectability of node grouping in networks

    Wang, C., Wang, H., Liu, J., Ji, M., Su, L., Chen, Y. & Han, J., 2013, Proceedings of the 2013 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM 2013. Ghosh, J., Obradovic, Z., Dy, J., Zhou, Z.-H., Kamath, C. & Parthasarathy, S. (eds.). Siam Society, p. 713-721 9 p. (Proceedings of the 2013 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM 2013).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Ranking-based name matching for author disambiguation in bibliographic data

    Liu, J., Lei, K. H., Liu, J. Y., Wang, C. & Han, J., 2013, Proceedings of the 2013 KDD Cup 2013 Workshop. Association for Computing Machinery, (Proceedings of the 2013 KDD Cup 2013 Workshop).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Recommendation in heterogeneous information networks with implicit user feedback

    Yu, X., Ren, X., Sun, Y., Sturt, B., Khandelwal, U., Gu, Q., Norick, B. & Han, J., 2013, RecSys 2013 - Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. p. 347-350 4 p. (RecSys 2013 - Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Research-insight: Providing insight on research by publication network analysis

    Tao, F., Yu, X., Lei, K. H., Brova, G., Cheng, X., Han, J., Kanade, R., Sun, Y., Wang, C., Wang, L. & Weninger, T., 2013, SIGMOD 2013 - International Conference on Management of Data. p. 1093-1096 4 p. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Resolving entity morphs in censored data

    Huang, H., Wen, Z., Yu, D., Ji, H., Sun, Y., Han, J. & Li, H., 2013, Long Papers. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 1083-1093 11 p. (ACL 2013 - 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference; vol. 1).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Selective sampling on graphs for classification

    Gu, Q., Aggarwal, C., Liu, J. & Han, J., Aug 11 2013, KDD 2013 - 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Parekh, R., He, J., Inderjit, D. S., Bradley, P., Koren, Y., Ghani, R., Senator, T. E., Grossman, R. L. & Uthurusamy, R. (eds.). Association for Computing Machinery, p. 131-139 9 p. 2487641. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; vol. Part F128815).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

    Open Access
  • Social patterns: Community detection using behavior-generated network datasets

    Leung, A., Dron, W., Hancock, J. P., Aguirre, M., Purnell, J., Han, J., Wang, C., Srivastava, J., Mahapatra, A., Roy, A. & Scott, L., 2013, Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 2nd International Network Science Workshop, NSW 2013. p. 82-89 8 p. 6609198. (Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 2nd International Network Science Workshop, NSW 2013).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Spatiotemporal periodical pattern mining in traffic data

    Jindal, T., Giridhar, P., Tang, L. A., Li, J. & Han, J., 2013, 2nd International Workshop on Urban Computing, UrbComp 2013 - Held in Conjunction with KDD 2013. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

    Open Access
  • 2012

    Analysis and refinement of cross-lingual entity linking

    Cassidy, T., Ji, H., Deng, H., Zheng, J. & Han, J., 2012, Information Access Evaluation: Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visual Analytics - Third International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2012, Proceedings. p. 1-12 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 7488 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • A simple algorithm for semi-supervised learning with improved generalization error bound

    Ji, M., Yang, T., Lin, B., Jin, R. & Han, J., 2012, Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2012. p. 1223-1230 8 p. (Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2012; vol. 2).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • BlueFinder: Estimate where a beach photo was taken

    Cao, L., Smith, J., Wen, Z., Yin, Z., Jin, X. & Han, J., 2012, WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Companion. p. 469-470 2 p. (WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Companion).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Building enriched web page representations using link paths

    Weninger, T., Zhai, C. X. & Han, J., 2012, HT'12 - Proceedings of 23rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media. p. 53-62 10 p. (HT'12 - Proceedings of 23rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Citation prediction in heterogeneous bibliographic networks

    Yu, X., Gu, Q., Zhou, M. & Han, J., 2012, Proceedings of the 12th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM 2012. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Publications, p. 1119-1130 12 p. (Proceedings of the 12th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM 2012).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Community trend outlier detection using soft temporal pattern mining

    Gupta, M., Gao, J., Sun, Y. & Han, J., 2012, Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2012, Proceedings. PART 2 ed. p. 692-708 17 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 7524 LNAI, no. PART 2).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Construction of web-based, service-oriented information networks: A data mining perspective (abstract)

    Han, J., 2012, Web-Age Information Management - 13th International Conference, WAIM 2012, Proceedings. p. 17-19 3 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 7418 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Document-topic hierarchies from document graphs

    Weninger, T., Bisk, Y. & Han, J., 2012, CIKM 2012 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 635-644 10 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Efficient mining of correlated sequential patterns based on null hypothesis

    Lin, C. X., Ji, M., Danilevsky, M. & Han, J., 2012, Web-KR'12 - Proceedings of the 2012 ACM International Workshop on Web-Scale Knowledge Representation, Retrieval and Reasoning, Co-located with CIKM 2012. p. 17-24 8 p. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • ETM: Entity topic models for mining documents associated with entities

    Kim, H., Sun, Y., Hockenmaier, J. & Han, J., 2012, Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2012. p. 349-358 10 p. 6413746. (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Evaluating event credibility on twitter

    Gupta, M., Zhao, P. & Han, J., 2012, Proceedings of the 12th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM 2012. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Publications, p. 153-164 12 p. (Proceedings of the 12th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM 2012).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Event-based social networks: Linking the online and offline social worlds

    Liu, X., He, Q., Tian, Y., Lee, W. C., McPherson, J. & Han, J., 2012, KDD'12 - 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. p. 1032-1040 9 p. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Integrating community matching and outlier detection for mining evolutionary community outliers

    Gupta, M., Gao, J., Sun, Y. & Han, J., 2012, KDD'12 - 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. p. 859-867 9 p. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Integrating meta-path selection with user-guided object clustering in heterogeneous information networks

    Sun, Y., Norick, B., Han, J., Yan, X., Yu, P. S. & Yu, X., 2012, KDD'12 - 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. p. 1348-1356 9 p. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • IntruMine: Mining intruders in untrustworthy data of cyber-physical systems

    Tang, L. A., Gu, Q., Yu, X., Han, J., La Porta, T., Leung, A., Abdelzaher, T. & Kaplan, L., 2012, Proceedings of the 12th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM 2012. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Publications, p. 600-611 12 p. (Proceedings of the 12th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM 2012).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Learning hierarchical relationships among partially ordered objects with heterogeneous attributes and links

    Wang, C., Han, J., Li, Q., Li, X., Lin, W. P. & Ji, H., 2012, Proceedings of the 12th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM 2012. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Publications, p. 516-527 12 p. (Proceedings of the 12th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM 2012).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Mining event periodicity from incomplete observations

    Li, Z., Wang, J. & Han, J., 2012, KDD'12 - 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. p. 444-452 9 p. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Mining heterogeneous information networks: The next frontier

    Han, J., 2012, KDD'12 - 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. p. 2-3 2 p. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Modeling and exploiting heterogeneous bibliographic networks for expertise ranking

    Deng, H., Han, J., Lyu, M. R. & King, I., 2012, JCDL '12 - Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. p. 71-80 10 p. (Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Optimizing index for taxonomy keyword search

    Ding, B., Wang, H., Jin, R., Han, J. & Wang, Z., 2012, SIGMOD '12 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Data. p. 493-504 12 p. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Parallel field ranking

    Ji, M., Lin, B., He, X., Cai, D. & Han, J., 2012, KDD'12 - 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. p. 723-731 9 p. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution