This paper introduces a novel link-based ranking algorithm based on a model of focused Web surfers. FocusedRank is described and compared to implementations of PageRank and Topic-...
Philip O'Brien, Tony Abou-Assaleh, Tapajyoti Das, ...
The objective of most users for consulting any information database, information warehouse or the internet is to resolve one problem or the other. Available online or offline anno...
An increasing number of social networking platforms are giving users the option to endorse entities that they find appealing, such as videos, photos, or even other users. We defin...
This paper presents a new method for realistic real-time rendering of tree foliage. Some approaches to this problem have been presented before but the quality of their results was...
Many web queries seek information about named entities (such as products or people). Web search engines federate such entity-oriented queries to relevant structured databases; the...