Web is being extensively used for personal expression, which includes ratings, reviews, recommendations, blogs. This user created content, e.g. book review on Amazon.com, becomes ...
Given a huge online social network, how do we retrieve information from it through crawling? Even better, how do we improve the crawling performance by using parallel crawlers tha...
Duen Horng Chau, Shashank Pandit, Samuel Wang, Chr...
Identifying the set of resources that are expected to receive the majority of requests in the near future, namely hot set, is at the basis of most content management strategies of...
This paper proposes a new type of Information/Communication system or Inquiry System to support the investigation by large groups (e.g. thousands of people) of complex topics abou...
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...