Sciweavers

WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
A cautious surfer for PageRank
This work proposes a novel cautious surfer to incorporate trust into the process of calculating authority for web pages. We evaluate a total of sixty queries over two large, real-...
Lan Nie, Baoning Wu, Brian D. Davison
150
Voted
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Understanding web search via a learning paradigm
Investigating whether one can view Web searching as a learning process, we examined the searching characteristics of 41 participants engaged in 246 searching tasks. We classified ...
Bernard J. Jansen, Brian Keith Smith, Danielle L. ...
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Modeling user behavior in recommender systems based on maximum entropy
We propose a model for user purchase behavior in online stores that provide recommendation services. We model the purchase probability given recommendations for each user based on...
Tomoharu Iwata, Kazumi Saito, Takeshi Yamada
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Brand awareness and the evaluation of search results
We investigate the effect of search engine brand (i.e., the identifying name or logo that distinguishes a product from its competitors) on evaluation of system performance. This r...
Bernard J. Jansen, Mimi Zhang, Ying Zhang
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Efficient training on biased minimax probability machine for imbalanced text classification
The Biased Minimax Probability Machine (BMPM) constructs a classifier which deals with the imbalanced learning tasks. In this paper, we propose a Second Order Cone Programming (SO...
Xiang Peng, Irwin King
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Exploring social dynamics in online media sharing
It is now feasible to view media at home as easily as text-based pages were viewed when the World Wide Web (WWW) first emerged. This development has supported media sharing and se...
Martin Halvey, Mark T. Keane
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Simple authentication for the web
Automated email-based password reestablishment (EBPR) is an efficient, cost-effective means to deal with forgotten passwords. In this technique, email providers authenticate users ...
Timothy W. van der Horst, Kent E. Seamons
156
Voted
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Utility analysis for topically biased PageRank
PageRank is known to be an efficient metric for computing general document importance in the Web. While commonly used as a one-size-fits-all measure, the ability to produce topica...
Christian Kohlschütter, Paul-Alexandru Chirit...
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Designing efficient sampling techniques to detect webpage updates
Due to resource constraints, Web archiving systems and search engines usually have difficulties keeping the entire local repository synchronized with the Web. We advance the state...
Qingzhao Tan, Ziming Zhuang, Prasenjit Mitra, C. L...