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D-Index
75
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18989
World Ranking
1433
National Ranking
742

Overview

Wang-Chien Lee is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States and has an extensive research background in Computer Science, with 53 publications in this field. Their work encompasses a variety of subfields, including Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing, Information Systems, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Computer Networks and Communications.

Their main research topics cover a broad spectrum with a focus on Data Management and Algorithms, Complex Network Analysis Techniques, Recommender Systems and Techniques, Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis, Advanced Graph Neural Networks, Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques, and Automated Road and Building Extraction.

Wang-Chien Lee has published multiple recent papers, including:

  • "Trembr," 2020, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
  • "On Representation Learning for Road Networks," 2020, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
  • "MIDIA: exploring denoising autoencoders for missing data imputation," 2020, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  • "Activity Organization for Friend-Making Optimization in Online Social Networks," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • "LinE: Logical Query Reasoning over Hierarchical Knowledge Graphs," 2022, Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Frequent coauthors of Wang-Chien Lee include De-Nian Yang, Chih-Ya Shen, Tao-Yang Fu, Ge Yu, and Ming-Syan Chen. Collaboration with these researchers has contributed to a variety of published work.

Their work has appeared across notable venues such as:

  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • 2022 IEEE 38th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)

In addition to journal and conference articles, Wang-Chien Lee has contributed to books published by Springer Science+Business Media. These publications include multiple editions of "Database Systems for Advanced Applications" in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Exploiting geographical influence for collaborative point-of-interest recommendation

    Mao Ye;Peifeng Yin;Wang-Chien Lee;Dik-Lun Lee

  • Location recommendation for location-based social networks

    Mao Ye;Peifeng Yin;Wang-Chien Lee

  • HIN2Vec: Explore Meta-paths in Heterogeneous Information Networks for Representation Learning

    Tao-yang Fu;Wang-Chien Lee;Zhen Lei

  • Prediction-based strategies for energy saving in object tracking sensor networks

    Yingqi Xu;J. Winter;Wang-Chien Lee

  • Semantic trajectory mining for location prediction

    Josh Jia-Ching Ying;Wang-Chien Lee;Tz-Chiao Weng;Vincent S. Tseng

  • IR-Tree: An Efficient Index for Geographic Document Search

    Zhisheng Li;Ken C K Lee;Baihua Zheng;Wang-Chien Lee

  • Event-based social networks: linking the online and offline social worlds

    Xingjie Liu;Qi He;Yuanyuan Tian;Wang-Chien Lee

  • Exploring social influence for recommendation: a generative model approach

    Mao Ye;Xingjie Liu;Wang-Chien Lee

  • Real-time automatic tag recommendation

    Yang Song;Ziming Zhuang;Huajing Li;Qiankun Zhao

  • On the semantic annotation of places in location-based social networks

    Mao Ye;Dong Shou;Wang-Chien Lee;Peifeng Yin

  • Data management in location-dependent information services

    Dik Lun Lee;Jianliang Xu;Baihua Zheng;Wang-Chien Lee

  • Mining user similarity from semantic trajectories

    Josh Jia-Ching Ying;Eric Hsueh-Chan Lu;Wang-Chien Lee;Tz-Chiao Weng

  • System and method for automatic loading of an xml document defined by a document-type definition into a relational database including the generation of a relational schema therefor

    Wang-Chien Lee;Gail Anne Mitchell;Xin Zhang

  • Protecting Moving Trajectories with Dummies

    Tun-Hao You;Wen-Chih Peng;Wang-Chien Lee

  • Approaching the skyline in Z order

    Ken C. K. Lee;Baihua Zheng;Huajing Li;Wang-Chien Lee

  • Top-k Monitoring in Wireless Sensor Networks

    M. Wu;J. Jianliang Xu;X. Xueyan Tang;W.-C. Wang-Chien Lee

  • System and method for synchronizing and/or updating an existing relational database with supplemental XML data

    Wang-Chien Lee;Gail Anne Mitchell;Elke Angelika Rundensteiner;Xin Zhang

  • Clustering and aggregating clues of trajectories for mining trajectory patterns and routes

    Chih-Chieh Hung;Wen-Chih Peng;Wang-Chien Lee

  • Semantic small world: an overlay network for peer-to-peer search

    Mei Li;Wang-Chien Lee;A. Sivasubramaniam

  • Time-critical on-demand data broadcast: algorithms, analysis, and performance evaluation

    Jianliang Xu;Xueyan Tang;Wang-Chien Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Dik Lun Lee
Dik Lun Lee Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Baihua Zheng
Baihua Zheng Singapore Management University
Jianliang Xu
Jianliang Xu Hong Kong Baptist University
Wen-Chih Peng
Wen-Chih Peng National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Ming-Syan Chen
Ming-Syan Chen National Taiwan University
Anand Sivasubramaniam
Anand Sivasubramaniam Pennsylvania State University
C. Lee Giles
C. Lee Giles Pennsylvania State University
Xueyan Tang
Xueyan Tang Nanyang Technological University
Philip S. Yu
Philip S. Yu University of Illinois at Chicago
Chita R. Das
Chita R. Das Pennsylvania State University

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