Gautam Pant

Gautam Pant

Assistant Professor
School of Accounting and Information Systems
David Eccles School of Business
The University of Utah
1645 East Campus Drive (108 KDGB)
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9303

Research Interests

Web Mining, Data Mining, Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval, AI, Knowledge Management.

Publications

Z. Ma, G. Pant, O. R. L. Sheng. Interest-based Personalized Search. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Jan 2007.
G. Pant, P. Srinivasan. Link Contexts in Classifier-Guided Topical Crawlers. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Jan 2006 .
G. Pant, P. Srinivasan. Learning to Crawl: Comparing Classification Schemes. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Oct 2005.
P. Srinivasan, F. Menczer, G. Pant. A General Evaluation Framework for Topical Crawlers. Information Retrieval, 2005.
F. Menczer, G. Pant, P. Srinivasan. Topical Web Crawlers: Evaluating Adaptive Algorithms. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Nov 2004.
G. Pant, K. Tsioutsiouliklis, J. Johnson, C.L. Giles. Panorama: Extending Digital Libraries with Topical Crawlers. Proc. ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2004).
P. Srinivasan, F. Menczer, G. Pant. Defining Evaluation Methodologies for Topical Crawlers. Position paper, SIGIR 2003 Workshop on Defining Evaluation Methodologies for Terabyte-Scale Collections.
G. Pant, P. Srinivasan, F. Menczer. Crawling the Web. in M. Levene and A. Poulovassilis, editors: Web Dynamics, Springer-Verlag, 2003.

G. Pant, S. Bradshaw, F. Menczer. Search Engine-Crawler Symbiosis: Adapting to Community Interests. Proc. 7th European Conference on Research and Advance d Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2003).

G. Pant, F. Menczer. Topical Crawling for Business Intelligence. Proc. 7th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Librarie s (ECDL 2003).

G. Pant. Deriving Link-context from HTML Tag Tree. Proc. 8th ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Research Issues in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD 2003).

P. Srinivasan, J. Mitchell, O. Bodenreider, G. Pant, F. Menczer. Web Crawling Agents for Retrieving Biomedical Information. Proc. Int. Workshop on Agents in Bioinfor matics (NETTAB 2002).

G. Pant, P. Srinivasan, F. Menczer. Exploration versus Exploitation in Topic Driven Crawlers. WWW 2002 Workshop on Web Dynamics.

G. Pant, F. Menczer. MySpiders: Evolve your own intelligent Web crawlers. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 5(2): 221--229, 2002.

F. Menczer, G. Pant, M. Ruiz, P. Srinivasan. Evaluating Topic-Driven Web Crawlers. Proc. ACM SIGIR 2001.

M. Degeratu, G. Pant, F. Menczer. Latency-dependent fitness in evolutionary multithreaded Web agents. Proc. GECCO 2001 EcoMAS Workshop.

D. Sturgill and G. Pant. Evaluation Criteria for Genetically-Tuned Problem Solving Experts. Proc. GECCO 1999.