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Recent publications:

• Gheorghe Muresan (2007) Integrating Interaction Design and Log Analysis: Bridging the Gap with UML, XML and XMI, Journal of Web Engineering, 6(3):196-221, Riston Press (Pdf).
• Dmitri Roussinov, Gheorghe Muresan (2007) Query Expansion: Internet Mining vs. Pseudo Relevance Feedback, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST 2007), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 2007, (HTML).
• Gheorghe Muresan, Tayfur Altiok, Benjamin Melamed, Daniel Zeng (eds) 2007 IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2007), New Brunswick, NJ, 23-24 May 2007, ISBN 1-4244-1329-X, IEEE catalog # 07EX1834.
• Ryen W. White, Gheorghe Muresan and Gary Marchionini (2006) Workshop on Evaluating Exploratory Search Systems, SIGIR Forum, 40(2): 52-60, December 2006, ACM Press (Pdf).
• Gheorghe Muresan and Dmitri Roussinov (2006) Where Do Good Query Terms Come From?, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST 2006), Austin, Texas, November 2006, (HTML).
• G. Muresan (2006) An Investigation of Query Expansion Terms, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST 2006), Austin, Texas, November 2006 (short paper / poster - Pdf).
• G. Muresan (2006) Modeling interactive behavior with state diagrams and Markov models, 2006 Research Symposium of the ASIST Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (ASIST-HCI): "Human Computer Interaction in Information-Intensive Environments", Austin, Texas, November 2006 (short paper / poster - Pdf).
• Gheorghe Muresan (2006) An Integrated Approach to Interaction Modeling and Analysis for Exploratory Information Retrieval, Workshop on Evaluating Exploratory Search Systems (EESS 2006) at SIGIR 2006, Seattle, WA, August 2006 (Pdf).
• Ryen W. White, Gheorghe Muresan and Gary Marchionini (2006) Evaluating Exploratory Search Systems, Workshop on Evaluating Exploratory Search Systems (EESS 2006) at SIGIR 2006, Seattle, WA, August 2006 (Pdf).
• G. Muresan, C. L. Smith, M. Cole, L. Liu, N.J. Belkin (2006) Detecting Document Genre for Personalization in Information Retrieval, in Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-39), Kauai, Hawai’i, January 2006 (Pdf).
• G. Muresan, M. Cole, C. L. Smith, L. Liu, N.J. Belkin (2006) Does Familiarity Breed Content ? Taking Account of Familiarity with a Topic in Personalizing Information Retrieval, in Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-39), Kauai, Hawai’i, January 2006 (Pdf).
• N.J. Belkin, M. Cole, J. Gwizdka, Y.-L. Li, J.-J. Liu, G. Muresan, D. Roussinov, C. L. Smith, A. Taylor, X.-J. Yuan (2005) Rutgers Information Interaction Lab at TREC 2005: Trying HARD, in Proceedings of TREC 2005, Gaithersburg, November 2005 (Notebook paper, presentation).
• P. Kantor, G. Muresan, F. Roberts, D. Zeng, F.-Y. Wang, H. Chen, R.C. Merkle (eds) (2005) Intelligence and Security Informatics, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2005, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 19-20, 2005, Springer, ISBN: 3-540-25999-6.
• E. R. Muresan and G. Muresan (2005) Using Information Communication Technology (ICT) to Teach Business Finance Concepts, in Proceedings of the National Seminar on Soft Computing, Intelligent Systems, and Information Technology (SIIT 2005), Surabaya, Indonesia, July 2005.
• David J. Harper, Gheorghe Muresan, Bicheng Liu, Ivan Koychev, Dietrich Wettschereck and Nirmalie Wiratunga (2004) The Robert Gordon University's HARD Track Experiments at TREC 2004, in Proceedings of TREC 2004, Gaithersburg, November 2004 (Pdf).
• N.J. Belkin, I. Chaleva, M.Cole, Y.-L. Li, L. Liu, Y.-H. Liu, G. Muresan, C.-L. Smith, Y. Sun, X.-J. Yuan and X.-M. Zhang (2003) Rutgers' HARD Track Experiments at TREC 2004, in Proceedings of TREC 2004, Gaithersburg, November 2004 (Pdf).
• Gheorghe Muresan and David J. Harper Topic Modelling for Mediated Access to Very Large Document Collections, JASIST 55 (10), Special Topics Issue: Document Search Interface Design for Large-Scale Collections and Intelligent Access, August 2004, p.892 - 910 (Pdf).
• Mingfang Wu, Gheorghe Muresan, Alistair McLean, Muh-Chyun (Morris) Tang, Ross Wilkinson, Yuelin Li, Hyuk-Jin Lee, Nicholas J. Belkin Human Versus Machine in the Topic Distillation Task, in Proceedings of SIGIR 2004, Sheffield, England, July 2004, p.385 - 392 (paper, presentation).
• N.J. Belkin, G. Muresan and X.-M. Zhang, Investigating the Effect of the Use of User’s Context on IR Performance, in Workshop on Information Retrieval in Context (IRiX) at SIGIR 2004, Sheffield, England, July 2004 (paper, presentation).
• Nicholas J. Belkin and Gheorghe Muresan Measuring Web Search Effectiveness: Rutgers at Interactive TREC, in Measuring Web Search Effectiveness: The User Perspective, workshop at WWW 2004, May 2004, New York (paper, presentation).
• N.J. Belkin, D. Kelly, H.-J. Lee, Y.-L. Li, G. Muresan, M.-C. Tang, X.-J. Yuan, X.-M. Zhang (2003) Rutgers' HARD and Web Interactive Track Experiments at TREC 2003, in Proceedings of TREC 2003, Gaithersburg, November 2003 (Postscript or Pdf).
• N.J. Belkin, C. Cool, D. Kelly, G. Kim, J.-Y. Kim, H.-J. Lee, G. Muresan, M.-C. Tang, X.-J. Yuan (2003) Query Length in Interactive Information Retrieval, in Proceedings of SIGIR 2003, Toronto, July-August 2003 (Pdf).
• N.J. Belkin, C. Cool, D. Kelly, G. Kim, J.-Y. Kim, H.-J. Lee, G. Muresan, M.-C. Tang, X.-J. Yuan (2002) Rutgers Interactive Track at TREC 2002, in Proceedings of TREC 2002, Gaithersburg, November 2002 (Postscript or Pdf).
• David J. Harper and Gheorghe Muresan (2002) Mediated Access to Very Large Document Collections, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Document Search Interface Design and Intelligent Access in Large-Scale Collections, JCDL '02, Portland, Oregon, July 2002 (Postscript or Pdf).
• Gheorghe Muresan (2002) Using Document Clustering and Language Modelling in Mediated Information Retrieval, Ph.D. thesis, School of Computing, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, January 2002. Supervisor: Prof. David J. Harper. Sponsor and collaborating establishment: Ubilab, Union Bank of Switzerland, Zurich (Postscript or Pdf).
• Gheorghe Muresan and David J. Harper (2001) Document Clustering and Language Models for System-Mediated Information Access in Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Darmstadt, 4-9 September 2001, pp.438-449, ISBN 3-540-42537-3 (Pdf).
• Gheorghe Muresan, David J. Harper and Ayse Goker (2001) ClusterBook, a Tool for System-Mediated Access via Clustered Collections, ECDL '01, Darmstadt, Germany, September 2001 (Pdf).
• Gheorghe Muresan, David J. Harper, Ayse Goker and Peter Lowit (2000) ClusterBook, a Tool for Dual Information Access in Proceedings of ACM-SIGIR 2000, Athens, 24-28 July 2000, pp.391(Demo abstract; Poster).
• Gheorghe Muresan, David J. Harper and Mourad Mechkour (1999) WebCluster, a tool for Mediated Information Access in Proceedings of ACM-SIGIR '99, Berkeley, 15-19 August 1999, pp.337(Demo abstract; Poster).
• David J. Harper, Mourad Mechkour and Gheorghe Muresan (1999) Document Clustering for Mediated Information Access in Proceedings of the 21st BCS-IRSG Annual Colloquium on IR Research, Glasgow, Scotland, 19-20 April 1999 (Paper; Presentation).
• Mourad Mechkour, David J. Harper and Gheorghe Muresan (1998) The WebCluster Project. Using Document Clustering for Mediating Access to the World Wide Web in Proceedings of ACM-SIGIR '98, Melbourne, Australia, 24-28 August 1998 (Description, Poster).