We propose a dynamic faceted search system for discoverydriven analysis on data with both textual content and structured attributes. From a keyword query, we want to dynamically s...
Debabrata Dash, Jun Rao, Nimrod Megiddo, Anastasia...
Influence maximization, defined by Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos (2003), is the problem of finding a small set of seed nodes in a social network that maximizes the spread of influe...
This paper presents a semi-supervised learning (SSL) approach to find similarities of images using statistics of local matches. SSL algorithms are well known for leveraging a larg...
Abstract: Social virtual worlds such as Second Life are digital representations of the real world where human-controlled avatars evolve and interact through social activities. Unde...
User profiles on today's social networking sites support only a small set of predefined questions. We report on an alternative way for users to richly describe themselves, by...
Casey Dugan, Werner Geyer, Michael J. Muller, Joan...