New information is obtained by research and disseminated by papers in conferences and journals. The synthesis of knowledge depends upon social discourse among the experts in a give...
This paper intends to provide some insights of a scientific problem: how likely one’s interests can be inferred from his/her social connections – friends, friends’ friends,...
In massively collaborative projects such as scientific or community databases, users often need to agree or disagree on the content of individual data items. On the other hand, tr...
In the last few decades, several studies have found the same technology implemented in highly similar organizational settings to be associated with very different consequences for...
In many applications, we find large video collections from different genres where the user is often only interested in one or two specific video genres. So, when users are queryin...