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Visual statistical inference is a way to determine significance of patterns found while exploring data. It is dependent on the evaluation of a lineup, of a data plot among a sample of null plots, by human observers. Each individual is…

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Today, intelligent user interfaces on the web often come in form of recommendation services tailoring content to individual users. Recommendation of web content such as news articles often requires a certain amount of explicit ratings to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Mirjam Augstein , Johannes Schönböck , Christina Lettner , Josef Altmann

Understanding socio-academic and economic factors influencing students' performance is crucial for effective educational interventions. This study employs several machine learning techniques and causal analysis to predict and elucidate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Md. Biplob Hosen , Sabbir Ahmed , Bushra Akter , Mehrin Anannya

E-commerce businesses employ recommender models to assist in identifying a personalized set of products for each visitor. To accurately assess the recommendations' influence on customer clicks and buys, three target areas -- customer…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Namrata Chaudhary , Drimik Roy Chowdhury

Development of efficient business process models and determination of their characteristic properties are subject of intense interdisciplinary research. Here, we consider a business process model as a directed graph. Its nodes correspond to…

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Principal component analysis is a long-standing go-to method for exploring multivariate data. The principal components are linear combinations of the original variables, ordered by descending variance. The first few components typically…

Applications · Statistics 2023-01-03 Nicholas Spyrison , Dianne Cook , Kim Marriott

This paper makes three contributions: (1) the paper provides a better understanding of online behavior by showing the main drivers of Internet portal choice, (2) the rich data allow for a deeper understanding of brand substitution patterns…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Avi Goldfarb , Qiang Lu

In this paper we have modified the existing page ranking mechanism as an advanced Page Rank Algorithm based on Semantics Inlinks Outlinks and Google Analytics. We have used Semantics page ranking to rank pages according to the word searched…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Aritra Banerjee , Shrey Choudhary

Google employs PageRank to rank web pages, determining the order in which search results are presented to users based on their queries. PageRank is primarily utilized for directed networks, although there are instances where it is also…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-26 Krishanu Deyasi

Nowadays, learning increasingly involves the usage of search engines and web resources. The related interdisciplinary research field search as learning aims to understand how people learn on the web. Previous work has investigated several…

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With the growing popularity of online social media, identifying influential users in these social networks has become very popular. Existing works have studied user attributes, network structure and user interactions when measuring user…

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Today's Web services - such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook - leverage user data for varied purposes, including personalizing recommendations, targeting advertisements, and adjusting prices. At present, users have little insight into how…

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In todays world, the internet affects every aspect of human life; it has caused changes in corporate websites as well as in many other areas. Corporate websites should be more dynamic, more interactive, and more compatible with new…

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Random walks with memory typically involve rules where a preference for either revisiting or avoiding those sites visited in the past are introduced somehow. Such effects have a direct consequence on the statistics of first-passage and…

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Recommendation systems are an increasingly prominent part of the web, accounting for up to a third of all traffic on several of the world's most popular sites. Nevertheless, little is known about how much activity such systems actually…

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Single-subject health data are becoming increasingly available thanks to advances in self-tracking technology (e.g., wearable devices, mobile apps, sensors, implants). Many users and health caregivers seek to use such observational time…

Applications · Statistics 2019-01-23 Eric Jay Daza

Modeling visual search not only offers an opportunity to predict the usability of an interface before actually testing it on real users, but also advances scientific understanding about human behavior. In this work, we first conduct a set…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Arianna Yuan , Yang Li

Web-enabled LLM agents are changing how online information influences search outcomes. \ Existing Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) studies mainly focus on individual webpages. \ However, agentic web search is not a single-document…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Hengwei Ye , Jiasheng Mao , Zhenhan Guan , Zheng Tian

The random surfer model is a frequently used model for simulating user navigation behavior on the Web. Various algorithms, such as PageRank, are based on the assumption that the model represents a good approximation of users browsing a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-05 Florian Geigl , Daniel Lamprecht , Rainer Hofmann-Wellenhof , Simon Walk , Markus Strohmaier , Denis Helic