Research

Publications

• J. Yuan, *T. Mensah-Boateng, S. Tang, "Influencer Marketing Augmented Personalized Assortment Planning: A Two-stage Optimization Problem", AAAI ICWSM 2024.

• S. Tang, J. Yuan, "Non-monotone Sequential Submodular Maximization", AAAI 2024.

• S. Tang, J. Yuan, *T. Mensah-Boateng, "Achieving Long-term Fairness in Submodular Maximization through Randomization", The 19th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization, CTW 2023.

• J. Yuan, S. Tang, "Worst-Case Adaptive Submodular Cover." The 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2023.

• S. Tang, J. Yuan, "Optimal Sampling Gaps for Adaptive Submodular Maximization." The 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2022.

• S. Tang, J. Yuan, "Assortment Optimization with Repeated Exposures and Product-dependent Patience Cost." Operations Research Letters, 2022, 50(1), 8-15.

• S. Tang, J. Yuan, "Adaptive Cascade Submodular Maximization." The 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2021.

• S. Tang, J. Yuan, "Cascade Submodular Maximization: Question Selection and Sequencing in Online Personality Quiz." Production and Operations Management, 2021, 30(7), 2143-2161.

• S. Tang, J. Yuan, V. S. Mookerjee, "Optimizing Ad Allocation in Mobile Advertising." The 21st ACM International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing, ACM Mobihoc 2020.

• S. Tang, J. Yuan, "Adaptive Robust Submodular Optimization and Beyond." The 14th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management, AAIM 2020.

• W. Yang, J. Ma, Y. Li, R. Yan, J. Yuan, W. Wu, D. Li, "Marginal Gains to Maximize Content Spread in Social Networks." IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2019, 6(3), 479-490. 

• W. Yang, J. Yuan, W. Wu, J. Ma, D. Du, "Maximizing Activity Profit in Social Networks." IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2019, 6(1), 117-126.

• Z. Zhang, W. Wu, J. Yuan, D. Du, "Breach-free Sleep-Wakeup Scheduling for Barrier Coverage with Heterogeneous Wireless Sensors." IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2018, 26(5), 2404-2413.

• J. Zhu, J. Zhu, S. Ghosh, W. Wu, J. Yuan, "Social Influence Maximization in Hypergraph in Social Networks." IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2018, 6(4), 801-811.

• J. Yuan, W. Wu, Y. Li, D. Du, "Active Friending in Online Social Networks." The 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies, IEEE/ACM BDCAT 2017.

• J. Yuan and S. Tang, "No Time to Observe: Adaptive Influence Maximization with Partial Feedback." The 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2017.

• J. Yuan and S. Tang, "Adaptive Discount Allocation in Social Networks.” The 18th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, ACM Mobihoc 2017.

• S. Tang, Y. Zhou, K. Han, Z. Zhang, J. Yuan, W. Wu, "Networked Stochastic Multi-armed Bandits with Combinatorial Strategies." The 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, IEEE ICDCS 2017.

• J. Tu, L. Wu, J. Yuan, L. Cui, "On the Vertex Cover P3 Problem Parameterized by Treewidth." Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 2017, 34(2), 414– 425.

• J. Yuan, L. He, E. C. Dragut, W. Meng, C. Yu, "Result Merging for Structured Queries on the Deep Web with Active Relevance Weight Estimation." Information Systems, 2017, 64, 93-103.

• S. Tang, J. Yuan, "Optimizing Ad Allocation in Social Advertising." The 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, ACM CIKM 2016.

*UNT PhD students