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Chapter and Conference Paper
Electronic Textbooks and Data Mining
Education is known to be the key determinant of economic growth and prosperity [8,12]. While the issues in devising a high-quality educational system are multi-faceted and complex, textbooks are acknowledged t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Ad Allocation for Browse Sessions
A user’s session of information need often goes well beyond his search query and first click on the search result page and therefore is characterized by both search and browse activities on the web. In such se...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Enriching Education through Data Mining
Education is acknowledged to be the primary vehicle for improving the economic well-being of people [1,6]. Textbooks have a direct bearing on the quality of education imparted to the students as they are the p...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Public Advertisement Broker Markets
Motivated by the growth of various networked systems as potential market places, we study market models wherein, owing to the size of the markets, transactions take place between largely unknown agents. In suc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Using Bloom Filters to Speed Up HITS-Like Ranking Algorithms
This paper describes a technique for reducing the query-time cost of HITS-like ranking algorithm. The basic idea is to compute for each node in the web graph a summary of its immediate neighborhood (which is a...
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QoS Management in Educational Digital Library Environments
Advances in multimedia computing technologies offer new approaches to the support of computer-assisted education and training within many application domains. Novel interactive presentation tools can be built ...