We report on a study of topic dynamics for pages visited by a sample of people using MSN Search. We examine the predictive accuracies of probabilistic models of topic transitions ...
In highly interactive multimedia applications startup latency is significant, and may negatively impact performance and Quality of Service (QoS). To avoid this, our approach is t...
Matthias Friedrich, Silvia Hollfelder, Karl Aberer
The large number of Web pages on many Web sites has raised navigational problems. Markov chains have recently been used to model user navigational behavior on the World Wide Web (W...
Web users use search engine to find useful information on the Internet. However current web search engines return answer to a query independent of specific user information need. S...
In e-commerce applications, no systematic research has been provided to evaluate if the use of a detailed and rich contextual representation improves the user modeling predictive p...
Cosimo Palmisano, Alexander Tuzhilin, Michele Gorg...