The rise of social interactions on the Web requires developing new methods of information organization and discovery. To that end, we propose a generative community-based probabil...
We propose a method for discovering the dependency relationships between the topics of documents shared in social networks using the latent social interactions, attempting to answ...
Graph data represents relationships, connections, or affinities. Innocent relationships produce repeated, and so common, substructures in graph data. We present techniques for dis...
Local image features or interest points provide compact ract representations of patterns in an image. In this paper, we propose to extend the notion of spatial interest points int...
One method of viral marketing involves seeding certain consumers within a population to encourage faster adoption of the product throughout the entire population. However, determi...