Wikipedia has become one of the ten most visited sites on the Web, and the world's leading
source of Web reference information. Its rapid success has inspired hundreds of scholars …

Although primarily an encyclopedia, Wikipedia's expansive content provides a knowledge
base that has been continuously exploited by researchers in a wide variety of domains. This …

Graph conductance queries, also known as personalized PageRank and related to random
walks with restarts, were originally proposed to assign a hyperlink-based prestige score to …

ObjectRank is one of the popular graph mining methods that enables us to evaluate the
importance of each vertex on heterogeneous graphs. However, it is computationally …

Different from traditional social networks, the location-based social networks allow people to
share their locations according to location-tagged user-generated contents, such as …

ObjectRank is an essential tool to evaluate an importance of nodes for a user-specified
query in heterogeneous graphs. However, existing methods are not applicable to massive …

Authority flow techniques like PageRank and ObjectRank can provide personalized ranking
of typed entity-relationship graphs. There are two main ways to personalize authority flow …

Personalized online systems for Web search, news recommendation, and e-commerce, are
developed. The process of personalization of online systems consists of three main steps …

Objective The keyword-based entity search restricts search space based on the preference
of search. When given keywords and preferences are not related to the same biomedical …

We study the problem of context-sensitive ranking for document retrieval, where a context is
defined as a sub-collection of documents, and is specified by queries provided by domain …