Markov models have been widely used for modelling users' navigational behaviour in the Web graph, using the transitional probabilities between web pages, as recorded in the w...
The flourishing of online labor markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) makes it easy to recruit many workers for solving small tasks. We study whether information elicita...
Thomas Pfeiffer, Xi Alice Gao, Yiling Chen, Andrew...
PageRank is defined as the stationary state of a Markov chain. The chain is obtained by perturbing the transition matrix induced by a web graph with a damping factor α that spre...
Abstract. The focus of web search is moving away from returning relevant documents towards returning structured data as results to user queries. A vital part in the architecture of...
Users of the World-Wide Web are not only confronted by an immense overabundance of information, but also by a plethora of tools for searching for the web pages that suit their inf...