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Search engine click-through data is a valuable source of implicit user feedback for relevance. However, not all user clicks are good indication of relevance. The clicks from search experts, who are more successful searching a query, tend to be more reliable in indicating document relevance than those of the non-experts. Therefore, knowing the expertise of search users is helpful to better under...

Using search engines to retrieve information has become an important part of people’s daily lives. For most search engines, click information is an important factor in document ranking. As a result, some websites cheat to obtain a higher rank by fraudulently increasing clicks to their pages, which is referred to as “Click Spam”. Based on an analysis of the features of fraudulent clicks, a novel...

Recent advances in click modeling have established it as an attractive approach to interpret search click data. These advances characterize users’ search behavior either in advertisement blocks, or within an organic search block through probabilistic models. Yet, when searching for information on a search result page, one is often interacting with the search engine via an entire page instead of...

A CuAAC reaction was established for modular synthesis of end-stapled homo- and hetero-triple helical peptides, generating "clicked" macro-assemblies with enhanced thermal stability.

When outsourcing tasks of a business process to a third party, information flow security becomes a critical issue. In particular implicit information leaks are an intriguing problem. Given a business process one could ask whether the execution of a confidential task is kept secret to a third party which can observe some public (nonconfidential) tasks. A business process is secure in sense of im...

A visual environment for object-oriented simulation of queuing networks is developed. A key design objective is to minimize the amount of programming required from the modeler while maintaining the full modeling power of a custom-made simulator for the queuing network application domain. The environment structure is based on a recently developed standard for the design of simulation environment...

We present SCENESUGGEST: an interactive 3D scene design system providing context-driven suggestions for 3D model retrieval and placement. Using a point-and-click metaphor we specify regions in a scene in which to automatically place and orient relevant 3D models. Candidate models are ranked using a set of static support, position, and orientation priors learned from 3D scenes. We show that our ...