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December 2011, Volume 13, Issue 2

Editor-In-Chief Associate Editor
Bart Goethals University of Antwerp Charu Aggarwal IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
  Srinivasan Parthasarathy The Ohio State University
 

Ankur M. Teredesai University of Washington
ankurt at u.washington.edu

 

Editorial
1
Bart Goethals
 

Educational Data Mining

Introduction to The Special Section on Educational Data Mining
3
Toon Calders, Mykola Pechenizkiy
Data Mining for Improving Textbooks
7
Rakesh Agrawal, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Anitha Kannan, Krishnaram Kenthapadi
Social Network Analysis and Mining to Support the Assessment of On-line Student Participation
20
Reihaneh Rabbany k., Mansoureh Takaffoli, Osmar R. Zaïane
Mapping Question Items to Skills with Non-negative Matrix Factorization
30
Michel C. Desmarais
The Sum is Greater than the Parts: Ensembling Models of Student Knowledge in Educational Software
37
Zachary A. Pardos, Ryan S.J.d. Baker, Sujith M. Gowda, Neil T. Heffernan
 

Contributed Articles

Process Mining: Making Knowledge Discovery Process Centric
45
Wil van der Aalst
Survey on Web Spam Detection: Principles and Algorithms
50
Nikita Spirin, Jiawei Han
A Study on the Importance of and Time Spent on Different Modeling Steps
65
M. Arthur Munson
 

KDD 2012

A Conversation with the Chinese KDD Leaders
72
Qiang Yang
A Conversation with Dr. Edward Y. Chang
73
Edward Y. Chang
A Conversation with Professors Deyi Li and Jie Tang
75
Deyi Li, Jie Tang
A Conversation with Professor Jianzhong Li
77
Jianzhong Li
A Conversation with Professor Ruqian Lu et al. 
79
Shuigeng Zhou, Fei Wang, Shanfeng Zhu, Caiyan Jia, Qiwen Dong, Ruqian Lu
A Conversation with MSRA Researchers
82
Wei-Ying Ma, Zheng Chen, Hang Li, Tie-Yan Liu, Zaiqing Nie, Haixun Wang, Ji-Rong Wen, Xing Xie, Yu Zheng
A Conversation with Professor Bole Shi 
85
Bole Shi
A Conversation with Dr. Yong Shi
87
Yong Shi
A Conversation with Professor Zhongzhi Shi
89
Zhongzhi Shi
A Conversation with Dr. Haifeng Wang
91
Haifeng Wang
A Conversation with Professor Shan Wang et al.
92
Shan Wang, Cuiping Li, Hong Chen
A Conversation with Professor Bo Zhang
97
Bo Zhang
A Conversation with Professor Li-Zhu Zhou
100
Li-Zhu Zhou
A Conversation with Professor Zhi-Hua Zhou
101
Zhi-Hua Zhou
An Introduction to SIGKDD and A Reflection on the Term ‘Data Mining’
103
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Usama Fayyad