Seed selection is of significant importance for the biased PageRank algorithms such as TrustRank to combat link spamming. Previous work usually uses a small seed set, which has a ...
We study the problem of detecting coordinated free text campaigns in large-scale social media. These campaigns – ranging from coordinated spam messages to promotional and advert...
Kyumin Lee, James Caverlee, Zhiyuan Cheng, Daniel ...
This paper presents the CMU submission to the 2008 TREC blog distillation track. Similar to last year's experiments, we evaluate different retrieval models and apply a query ...
Jaime Arguello, Jonathan L. Elsas, Changkuk Yoo, J...
We present an incentive-based architecture for providing recommendations in a social network. We maintain a distinct reputation system for each individual and we rely on users to ...
Rajat Bhattacharjee, Ashish Goel, Konstantinos Kol...
We describe DSPHERE1 - a decentralized system for crawling, indexing, searching and ranking of documents in the World Wide Web. Unlike most of the existing search technologies tha...
Bhuvan Bamba, Ling Liu, James Caverlee, Vaibhav Pa...