Online offerings such as web search, news portals, and e-commerce applications face the challenge of providing high-quality service to a large, heterogeneous user base. Recent eff...
Community Question Answering (CQA) has emerged as a popular forum for users to pose questions for other users to answer. Over the last few years, CQA portals such as Naver and Yah...
We propose and evaluate a probabilistic framework for estimating a Twitter user’s city-level location based purely on the content of the user’s tweets, even in the absence of ...
A serious threat to user privacy in new mobile and web2.0 applications stems from ‘social inferences’. These unwanted inferences are related to the users’ identity, current ...
Complex applications in many areas, including scientific computations and business-related web services, are created from collections of components to form workflows. In many case...