—The design of computer and communication systems has been based, for decades, on the fundamental assumption that the objective of all users is to improve their own performance. ...
Sponsored search is a multi-billion dollar business that generates most of the revenue for search engines. Predicting the probability that users click on ads is crucial to sponsor...
— Modern cities are becoming increasingly networked Network Operator and the Service Providers can introduce environments and a plethora of computing equipment interacts their ow...
Antonis M. Hadjiantonis, Marinos Charalambides, Ge...
Markov models have been widely used for modelling users' navigational behaviour in the Web graph, using the transitional probabilities between web pages, as recorded in the w...
Today many interactions are carried out online through Web sites and e-services and often private and/or sensitive information is required by service providers. A growing concern r...
Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Marco Cremonini, Ernesto...