Random walk graph and Markov chain based models are used heavily in many data and system analysis domains, including web, bioinformatics, and queuing. These models enable the desc...
Despite of the popularity of global search engines, people still suffer from low accuracy of site search. The primary reason lies in the difference of link structures and data sca...
This paper addresses automatic image annotation problem and its application to multi-modal image retrieval. The contribution of our work is three-fold. (1) We propose a probabilis...
Current web search engines focus on searching only the most recent snapshot of the web. In some cases, however, it would be desirable to search over collections that include many ...
Focused web crawlers have recently emerged as an alternative to the well-established web search engines. While the well-known focused crawlers retrieve relevant webpages, there ar...
Martin Ester, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Schuber...