Rich media social networks promote not only creation and consumption of media, but also communication about the posted media item. What causes a conversation to be interesting, th...
Geographic information has spawned many novel Web applications where global positioning system (GPS) plays important roles in bridging the applications and end users. Learning kno...
We propose a General Markov Framework for computing page importance. Under the framework, a Markov Skeleton Process is used to model the random walk conducted by the web surfer on...
Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, Zhiming Ma, Taifeng Wang, Ha...
Opinion finding is a challenging retrieval task, where it has been shown that it is especially difficult to improve over a strongly performing topic-relevance baseline. In this pa...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Ben He, Craig Macdonald, Iad...
We study and provide efficient algorithms for multi-objective model checking problems for Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). Given an MDP, M, and given multiple linear-time (ω-regu...
Kousha Etessami, Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, Moshe Y. Va...