Targeting interest to match a user with services (eg news, products, games, advertisements)
and predicting friendship to build connections among users are two fundamental tasks for …

In this work, we study the use of Twitter by House, Senate and gubernatorial candidates
during the midterm (2010) elections in the US Our data includes almost 700 candidates and …

The ultimate goal of advertisers are conversions representing desired user actions on the
advertisers' websites in the form of purchases and product information request. In this paper …

This work addresses the problem of detecting topic-based influencers in social media. For
that end, we devise a novel behavioral model of authors and readers, where authors try to …

In this paper we describe a novel approach of increasing patients' safety using explanation-
driven personalized content recommendation. In this approach, patients are exposed to …

Using classifiers for decision making requires well-calibrated probabilities for estimation of
expected utility. Furthermore, knowledge of the reliability is needed to quantify uncertainty …

The prolific use of participatory Web and social networking sites is reshaping the ways in
which people interact with one another. It has become a vital part of human social life in both …

The Large scaled emerging user created information in web 2.0 such as tags, reviews,
comments and blogs can be used to profile users' interests and preferences to make …

In recent years, there is a growing interest in using social media to understand social
phenomena. Researchers have demonstrated many important applications of using online …

Velocity of data generation has increased over a period of decade which is expected to
further increase exponentially with the passage of time. To mine the useful nuggets of …