: A distributed service to model and control contextual information in mobile and ubiquitous computing environments is presented in this paper. We introduce the general user model ...
There has been a tremendous growth in the amount of information and resources on the World Wide Web that are useful to researchers and practitioners in science domains. While the ...
Michael Chau, Zan Huang, Jialun Qin, Yilu Zhou, Hs...
Social media websites promote diverse user interaction on media objects as well as user actions with respect to other users. The goal of this work is to discover community structu...
Yu-Ru Lin, Jimeng Sun, Paul Castro, Ravi B. Konuru...
Social media sites (e.g., Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook) are a popular distribution outlet for users looking to share their experiences and interests on the Web. These sites host ...
This article describes an application of the partially observable Markov (POM) model to the analysis of a large scale commercial web search log. Mathematically, POM is a variant o...