The rapid development of online social networks not only enables prompt and convenient
dissemination of desirable information but also incurs fast and wide propagation of …

Influence maximization is to extract a small set of nodes from a social network which
influences the propagation maximally under a cascade model. In this paper, we propose a …

In the last decades, the availability of digital user-generated documents from social media
has dramatically increased. This massive growth of user-generated content has also …

There is a need for enhanced context-based document relevance assessment and ranking
to facilitate the retrieval of more relevant information for supporting environmental decision …

One of the key factors for enabling sustainable construction is promoting the acquisition of
knowledge about sustainable construction practices (SCPs). Information retrieval (IR) is at …

Through our four years experiments on students' Scrum based agile software development
(ASD) process, we have gained deep understanding into the human factors of agile …

The way we watch television is changing with the introduction of attractive Web activities that
move users away from TV to other media. The social multimedia and user-generated …

Social networks are becoming an integral part of people's life to share and disseminate
information instantly. Users share their views on a particular topic or events and receive …

Underwater acoustic sensor networks (UANs) have emerged as a promising technology
recently, which can be applied in many areas such as military and civil, where the …

Contextual information extracted from the user task can help to better target retrieval to task-
relevant content. In particular, topical context can be exploited to identify the sub-ject of the …