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Collaborative work environments for scientific knowledge have many applications in research as well as in education. Such systems already exist (e.g. Wikipedia and PlanetMath), b...
The dominant eigenvector of matrices defined by weighted links in overlay networks plays an important role in many peer-to-peer applications. Examples include trust management, im...
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Personalization is one of the important research issues in the areas of information retrieval and Web search. Providing personalized services that are tailored toward the specific...
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