Microblogs such as Twitter reflect the general public’s reactions to major events. Bursty topics from microblogs reveal what events have attracted the most online attention. Al...
This paper is a reminder of the danger of allowing \risk" when synchronizing a parallel discrete-event simulation: a simulation code that runs correctly on a serial machine m...
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...
Query logs record the queries and the actions of the users of search engines, and as such they contain valuable information about the interests, the preferences, and the behavior ...
Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, De...
To handle the overwhelming amount of information currently available, personalization systems allow users to specify the information that interests them through preferences. Most ...