About the Author

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Jie Cao, born in 1969, received his Ph.D. degree in engineering from South-east University in 2002, Ph.D. supervisor, part-time doctoral supervisor of Nan-jing University of Science and Technology and Hohai University. He has pub-lished more than 100 papers in TKDE, TPDS, TKDD, TWeb, TCyb, TNNLS, TII, TIST, InfSci, KDD, ICDM and other domestic and international journals and con-ferences, and the total number of citations exceeds 5,000, among which more than 100 are indexed by SCI. He was appointed as an editorial board member of Neu-rocomputing and World Wide Web Journal.