It is increasingly common for users to interact with the web using a number of different aliases. This trend is a doubleedged sword. On one hand, it is a fundamental building bloc...
Weblogs (blogs) serve as a gateway to a large blog reader population, so blog authors can potentially influence a large reader population by expressing their thoughts and expertise...
We formulate and study a decentralized multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem. There are distributed players competing for independent arms. Each arm, when played, offers i.i.d. reward a...
We consider the problem of link prediction in signed networks. Such networks arise on the web in a variety of ways when users can implicitly or explicitly tag their relationship w...
This paper describes our efforts to investigate factors in user browsing behavior to automatically evaluate Web pages that the user shows interest in. We developed a client site l...