Online popularity has enormous impact on opinions, culture, policy, and profits, especially with the advent of the social Web and Web advertising. Yet the processes that drive popu...
Jacob Ratkiewicz, Filippo Menczer, Santo Fortunato...
In this paper, we propose to model the blended search problem by assuming conditional dependencies among queries, VSEs and search results. The probability distributions of this mo...
The advent of social tagging systems has enabled a new community-based view of the Web in which objects like images, videos, and Web pages are annotated by thousands of users. Und...
There is a large amount of data that is published on the Web and several techniques have been developed to extract and integrate data from Web sources. However, Web data are inhere...
Lorenzo Blanco, Valter Crescenzi, Paolo Merialdo, ...
The use of XML as the de facto data exchange standard has allowed integration of heterogeneous web based software systems regardless of implementation platforms and programming la...