Recommender systems are an important component of many websites. Two of the most popular approaches are based on matrix factorization (MF) and Markov chains (MC). MF methods learn...
Steffen Rendle, Christoph Freudenthaler, Lars Schm...
This work investigates personalized social search based on the user’s social relations – search results are re-ranked according to their relations with individuals in the user...
David Carmel, Naama Zwerdling, Ido Guy, Shila Ofek...
With over half a billion users, Online Social Networks (OSNs) are the major new applications on the Internet. Little information is available on the network impact of OSNs, althou...
—With the popularity of BitTorrent, improving its performance has been an active research area. Super-seeding, a special upload policy for initial seeds, improves the efficiency ...
Zhijia Chen, Yang Chen, Chuang Lin, Vaibhav Nivarg...
This paper studies an active underground economy which specializes in the commoditization of activities such as credit card fraud, identity theft, spamming, phishing, online crede...
Jason Franklin, Adrian Perrig, Vern Paxson, Stefan...