The Social Web is successfully established and poised for continued growth. Web 2.0 applications such as blogs, bookmarking, music, photo and video sharing systems are among the m...
Avare Stewart, Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl...
Email has become an integral and sometimes overwhelming part of users’ personal and professional lives. In this paper, we measure the flow and frequency of user email toward th...
Lisa Johansen, Michael Rowell, Kevin R. B. Butler,...
This paper details a fully automated face authentication system using low-cost near infrared imaging. The image normalization step consists of eye center localization, scale corre...
This paper aims to tackle the very interesting and important problem of user personalized ranking of search results. The focus is on news retrieval and the data from which the ran...
The social media site Flickr allows users to upload their photos, annotate them with tags, submit them to groups, and also to form social networks by adding other users as contact...