Detection of template and noise blocks in web pages is an important step in improving the performance of information retrieval and content extraction. Of the many approaches propos...
This article describes an application of the partially observable Markov (POM) model to the analysis of a large scale commercial web search log. Mathematically, POM is a variant o...
This paper describes an agent-based recommendation system developed to support knowledge acquisition and sharing processes. Its purpose is to aid the process of community building...
Mauro F. Koyama, Olga Nabuco, Francisco Edeneziano...
The increasing availability of GPS-enabled devices is changing the way people interact with the Web, and brings us a large amount of GPS trajectories representing people's lo...
Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...