Michael B. Spring
Associate Professor
701B IS Building
412-624-9429
Institution of highest degree:
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh
Research Interests:
E-business and e-markets, web services, web semantics, social networking and collective intelligence; distributed systems, client-server systems, collaborative authoring and information infrastructure; secure coding, e-business security and information assurance; standards and standardization.
Recent Publications:
Choochaiwattana W., Spring, M.B., Applying Social Annotations to Retrieve and Re-rank Web Resources. International Conference on Information Management and Engineering (ICIME 2009) 3 - 5, April 2009, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Rotondi, A. J., Haas, G. L., Ganguli, R., Eack, S., Anderson, C. M., Newhill, C. E., Spring, M. B., Rosenstock, J. B. Improving Outcomes for Schizophrenia via a Web-based Family Psychoeducation Intervention, Designed for those with Cognitive Impairments. 2009 International Congress on Schizophrenia Research. San Diego, California, USA March 28-April 1, 2009
Syn, S.Y., Spring, M.B., Can a system make novice users experts? Analysis of metadata created by novices and experts with varying levels of assistance. International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies July, 2008, pp. 122-131, 3(2).
Aksu, A. Kabara, J., Spring, M.B. Reduction of Location Estimation Error using Neural Networks, First ACM International Workshop on Mobile Entity Localization and Tracking in GPS-less Environments (MELT08) September 19, San Francisco, CA.
Mao, M. Peng, Y., Spring, M.B. Neural Network based Constraint Satisfaction in Ontology Mapping Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-08) July 13 - 17 Chicago, Illinois.
Mao, M. Peng, Y., Spring, M.B. Integrating the IAC Neural Network in Ontology Mapping. The 17th International World Wide Web Conference. April 21-25, 2008, Beijing, China.