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The study of Web user profiling can be traced back to 30 years ago, with the goal of extracting "semantic"-based user profile attributes from the unstructured Web. Despite slight differences, the general method is to first identify relevant pages of a ...

¹Success of Meetup groups is of utmost importance for the members who organize them. Given a wide variety of such groups, a single metric may not be indicative of success for different groups; rather, success measure should be specific to the interest ...

Mental disorders are currently affecting millions of people from different cultures, age groups and geographic regions. The challenge of mental disorders is that they are difficult to detect on suffering patients, thus presenting an alarming number of ...

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have high potential for improving education worldwide, but understanding of student behavior and situations is difficult to achieve in online settings. Network analytics and visualizations can assist instructors with ...

Social networks are known to form on the basis of homophily, where nodes with some type of similar characteristics are more likely to be connected. Some of the most fundamental human characteristics are reflected by an individual's personality, which ...