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Firms implementing digital advertising campaigns face a complex problem in determining the right match between their advertising creatives and target audiences. Typical solutions to the problem have leveraged non-experimental methods, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Tong Geng , Xiliang Lin , Harikesh S. Nair

A web browser should not be only for browsing web pages but also help users to find out their target websites and recommend similar type websites based on their behavior. Throughout this paper, we propose two methods to make a web browser…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Ashadullah Shawon , Syed Tauhid Zuhori , Firoz Mahmud , Md. Jamil-Ur Rahman

Algorithms for machine learning-guided design, or design algorithms, use machine learning-based predictions to propose novel objects with desired property values. Given a new design task -- for example, to design novel proteins with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Clara Fannjiang , Ji Won Park

Large pre-trained neural networks are ubiquitous and critical to the success of many downstream tasks in natural language processing and computer vision. However, within the field of web information retrieval, there is a stark contrast in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Benedict Yeoh , Huijuan Wang

Classification in the dissimilarity space has become a very active research area since it provides a possibility to learn from data given in the form of pairwise non-metric dissimilarities, which otherwise would be difficult to cope with.…

Web services represent a system with a huge number of units and many various and complex interactions. Complex networks as a tool for modelling and analyzing natural environments seem to be well adapted to such a complex system. To describe…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-05-02 Chantal Cherifi , Jean-François Santucci

Web AI agents such as ChatGPT Agent and GenSpark are increasingly used for routine web-based tasks, yet they still rely on text-based input prompts, lack proactive detection of user intent, and offer no support for interactive data analysis…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Yanwei Huang , Arpit Narechania

Complex networks have become powerful mechanisms for studying a variety of realworld systems. Consequently, many human-designed network models are proposed that reproduce nontrivial properties of complex networks, such as long-tail degree…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Niousha Attar , Sadegh Aliakbary

Online advertising is an important and huge industry. Having knowledge of the website attributes can contribute greatly to business strategies for ad-targeting, content display, inventory purchase or revenue prediction. Classical inferences…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-18 Li Chen , Matthew Patton

This paper analyses role of internet in marketing and its influences on business decision-making process. It explains how the decision maker collect variety of information about customers through internet and analysis this data to better…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Tanzila Saba

Web Usage Mining is an application of Data Mining Techniques to discover interesting usage patterns from web data in order to understand and better serve the needs of web-based applications. The paper proposes an algorithm for finding these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Pritish Yuvraj , Suneetha K. R

Feature selection is an important task in many problems occurring in pattern recognition, bioinformatics, machine learning and data mining applications. The feature selection approach enables us to reduce the computation burden and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Hadi Zare , Mojtaba Niazi

We propose a novel approach for the recommendation of possible customers (users) to advertisers (e.g., brands) based on two main aspects: (i) the comparison between On-line Social Network profiles, and (ii) neighborhood analysis on the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Mariella Bonomo , Armando La Placa , Simona E. Rombo

This paper presents a statistically sound method for measuring the accuracy with which a probabilistic model reflects the growth of a network, and a method for optimising parameters in such a model. The technique is data-driven, and can be…

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Machine learning and data mining techniques are utiized for enhancement of the security of any network. Researchers used machine learning for pattern detection, anomaly detection, dynamic policy setting, etc. The methods allow the program…

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From social networks to P2P systems, network sampling arises in many settings. We present a detailed study on the nature of biases in network sampling strategies to shed light on how best to sample from networks. We investigate connections…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-09-20 Arun S. Maiya , Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf

A challenge that machine learning practitioners in the industry face is the task of selecting the best model to deploy in production. As a model is often an intermediate component of a production system, online controlled experiments such…

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A focused crawler traverses the web selecting out relevant pages to a predefined topic and neglecting those out of concern. While surfing the internet it is difficult to deal with irrelevant pages and to predict which links lead to quality…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-06-30 Anshika Pal , Deepak Singh Tomar , S. C. Shrivastava

Recent studies on domain-specific BERT models show that effectiveness on downstream tasks can be improved when models are pretrained on in-domain data. Often, the pretraining data used in these models are selected based on their subject…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Xiang Dai , Sarvnaz Karimi , Ben Hachey , Cecile Paris