In this paper, we study the problem of learning block classification models to estimate block functions. We distinguish general models, which are learned across multiple sites, an...
Location models are crucial to location-aware applications. In this paper we present two approaches for modeling location information in an infrastructure-based and an ad hoc netwo...
Influential people have an important role in the process of information diffusion. However, there are several ways to be influential, for example, to be the most popular or the...
Current Web search engines generally impose link analysis-based re-ranking on web-page retrieval. However, the same techniques, when applied directly to small web search such as i...
Precise automated video search is gaining in importance as the amount of multimedia information is increasing at exponential rates. One of the drawbacks that make video retrieval ...