Matthew Smith

Research Interests

Affinities and Social Networks
Social Capital in Online Communities, Implicit Affinity Networks (IAN), Link Mining, Clustering, Word-of-mouth, Influence, Reality Mining (Google News)
Personalization
Recommendation Systems and Collaborative Filtering (Google News)
Business Intelligence
Web Analytics and Statistical Methods (Google News)
Web Mining
Content, Usage, and Structure Mining (Google News)

Projects

Publications

Smith, M., Purser, N. and Giraud-Carrier, C. (2008). Social Capital in the Blogosphere: A Case Study. In Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium on Social Information Processing, K. Lerman et al. (Eds.), Technical Report SS-08-06, AAAI Press, 93-97.

Giraud-Carrier, C. and Smith, M. (2008). Web Mining: Stages of Knowledge Discovery in e-Commerce Sites. In Wang, J. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, 2nd Edition, 1830-1834.

Smith, M., Giraud-Carrier, C. and Judkins, B. (2007). Implicit Affinity Networks. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, 1-6.

Smith, M. (2007). Implicit Affinity Networks. Brigham Young University.

Smith, M., Wenerstrom, B., Giraud-Carrier, C., Lawyer, S. and Liu, W. (2007). Personalizing e-Commerce with Data Mining. In E-Service Intelligence: Methodologies, Technologies and Applications, Lu, J., Ruan, D. and Zhang, G. (Eds.), Studies in Computation Intelligenge Series, Vol. 37, Springer, Chapter 12.

Smith, M. and Giraud-Carrier, C. (2006). Genealogical Affinity Networks. 6th Annual Workshop on Technology for Family History and Genealogical Research.

Smith, M. and Giraud-Carrier, C. (2005). Stages of Knowledge Discovery in Websites. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on E-Service Intelligence at the Eighth Joint Conference on Information Sciences.