I am a Computing Science PhD student at University of Alberta working under supervision of Prof. Osmar Zaiane.
My research focuses on mining social and information networks, with an emphasis on finding their underlying community structures.
Education
- PhD. in Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (2010 - present)
- M.Sc. in Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (2008 - 2010)
- B.S. in Computer Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (2003 - 2007)
Publications
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Reihaneh Rabbany K. and Osmar R. Zaiane, A Diffusion of Innovation-Based Closeness Measure for Network Associations,
the COMMPER Workshop on Mining Communities and People Recommenders, in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Vancouver, Canada, December 2011
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Reihaneh Rabbany K., Mansoureh Takaffoli, Osmar R. Zaiane, Social Network Analysis and Mining to Support the Assessment of Online Student Participation,
ACM SIGKDD Explorations on Educational Data mining, December 2011
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Reihaneh Rabbany K., Eleni Stroulia, Osmar R Zaiane, Web Service Matching for RESTful Web Services,
13th IEEE International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution, Williamsburg, VA, USA, September 30, 2011
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Reihaneh Rabbany K., Mansoureh Takaffoli, Osmar R. Zaiane, Analyzing Participation of Students in Online Courses Using Social Network Analysis Techniques,
4th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM'11), Eindhoven, Netherlands, July 6-8, 2011
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Jiyang Chen, Justin Fagnan, Randy Goebel, Reihaneh Rabbany, Farzad Sangi, Mansoureh Takaffoli, Eric Verbeek, Osmar R. Zaiane,
Meerkat: Community Mining with Dynamic Social Networks, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM),
Sydney, Australia, December 2010 (System prototype demonstration)
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Reihaneh Rabbany K., Community Mining and its Applications in Educational Environments, M.Sc. thesis, University of Alberta, August 2010
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Reihaneh Rabbany K., Jiyang Chen, Osmar R. Zaiane, Top leaders Community Detection Approach in Information Networks,
4th SNA-KDD Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis, in conjunction with the ACM SIGKDD conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD),
Washington, DC, July 25 2010
Research Projects
- TopLeaders, Detecting the community/clustering structure in relational datasets
- MeerkatED, Mining the Network of Students in Online Courses using social network analysis techniques
- TimeCloud, Analyzing the evolution of frequent terms in time-varying texual documents
Courses
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Software Services Delivery, Management and Quality, Winter 2010 (resources)
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Evaluation of Clusters and Communities, Winter 2010 (resources)
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Information Extraction Meets Databases, Fall 2010 (resources)
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Machine Learning, Winter 2008 (resources)
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Reinforcement Learning, Winter 2008 (resources)
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Bioinformatics, Winter 2008 (resources)
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Probabilistic Graphical Models, Fall 2008 (resources)
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Research and Teaching Methods, Fall 2008 (resources)
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