A burst is a large number of events occurring within a certain time window. As an unusual activity, it's a noteworthy phenomenon in many natural and social processes. Many da...
We present a probabilistic model for generating personalised recommendations of items to users of a web service. The Matchbox system makes use of content information in the form o...
Information flows in a network where individuals influence each other. The diffusion rate captures how efficiently the information can diffuse among the users in the network. We p...
The advent of the Semantic Web necessitates paradigm shifts away from centralized client/server architectures towards decentralization and peer-to-peer computation, making the exi...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Lars Schmidt-Thieme, Cai-Nico...
The need for e-learning systems that support a diverse set of pedagogical requirements has been identified as an important issue in web-based education. Until now, significant R&a...