Abstract— Customized semantic query answering, personalized search, focused crawlers and localized search engines frequently focus on ranking the pages contained within a subgrap...
Radial functions are a powerful tool in many areas of multidimensional approximation, especially when dealing with scattered data. We present a fast approximate algorithm for the ...
In this paper, we introduce a system, written in Haskell, for filtering information from XML data. Essentially, the system implements a simple declarative language which allows on...
In this paper we suggest evaluating the importance of a website with the mean frequency of visiting the website for the Markov chain on the Internet Graph describing random surfi...
We propose a new boosting algorithm for bipartite ranking problems. Our boosting algorithm, called SoftRankBoost, is a modification of RankBoost which maintains only smooth distri...