Online forums represent one type of social media that is particularly rich for studying human behavior in information seeking and diffusing. The way users join communities is a re...
This paper evaluates the robustness of learning from implicit feedback in web search. In particular, we create a model of user behavior by drawing upon user studies in laboratory ...
Abstract. The accurate prediction of Web navigation patterns has immense commercial value as the Web evolves into a primary medium for marketing and sales for many businesses. Ofte...
Malik Tahir Hassan, Khurum Nazir Junejo, Asim Kari...
Abstract—Traditionally, performance has been the most important metrics when evaluating a system. However, in the last decades industry and academia have been paying increasing a...
We present a mixture model based approach for learning individualized behavior models for the Web users. We investigate the use of maximum entropy and Markov mixture models for ge...