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Tristan Bereau, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Giovanni Pizzi, Ronald Earle Miller, Matthias Scheffler, Carsten Baldauf

The expansive production of data in materials science, their widespread sharing and repurposing requires educated support and stewardship. In order to ensure that this need helps rather than hinders scientific work, the implementation of the FAIR-data prin ...

Nature Portfolio2023

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This dataset supports the publication 'Elastocapillary menisci mediate interaction of neighboring structures at the surface of a compliant solid' by Lebo Molefe and John M. Kolinski, Physical Review E, (2023). The data are surface profiles of textured surf ...

Zenodo2023

A large scale study of reader interactions with images on Wikipedia

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Wikipedia is the largest source of free encyclopedic knowledge and one of the most visited sites on the Web. To increase reader understanding of the article, Wikipedia editors add images within the text of the article's body. However, despite their widespr ...

SPRINGER2022

openBEB: open biological experiment browser for correlative measurements

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Sophie Roizard

Background: New experimental methods must be developed to study interaction networks in systems biology. To reduce biological noise, individual subjects, such as single cells, should be analyzed using high throughput approaches. The measurement of several ...

Biomed Central Ltd2014

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Skin colors are important for a broad range of imaging applications to assure quality and naturalness. We discuss the impact of various metadata on skin colors in images, i.e. how does the presence of a metadata attribute influence the expected skin color ...

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Personalizing Top-k Processing Online in a Peer-to-Peer Social Tagging Network

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The rapidly increasing amount of user-generated content in social tagging systems provides a huge source of information. Yet, performing effective search in these systems is very challenging, especially when we seek the most appropriate items that match a ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2014

Spam Fighting in Social Tagging Systems

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ivan Ivanov, Sasan Yazdani

Tagging in online social networks is very popular these days, as it facilitates search and retrieval of diverse resources available online. However, noisy and spam annotations often make it difficult to perform an efficient search. Users may make mistakes ...

Springer-Verlag2012

Efficient monitoring of personalized hot news over Web 2.0 streams

Karl Aberer, Parisa Haghani, Sebastian Michel

Web 2.0 streams, like blog postings, microblogging tweets, or RSS feeds from online communities, offer a wealth of latest news about real-world events and societal discussion. From a user’s perspective, it becomes harder and harder to get a decent overview ...

2012

Advanced Search, Visualization and Tagging of Sensor Metadata

Karl Aberer, Ho Young Jeung, Ioannis Paparrizos

As sensors continue to proliferate, the capabilities of effectively querying not only sensor data but also its metadata becomes important in a wide range of applications. This paper demonstrates a search system that utilizes various techniques and tools fo ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2011

Online chemical modeling environment (OCHEM): web platform for data storage, model development and publishing of chemical information

Luc Patiny

The Online Chemical Modeling Environment is a web-based platform that aims to automate and simplify the typical steps required for QSAR modeling. The platform consists of two major subsystems: the database of experimental measurements and the modeling fram ...

2011

Introducing qualitative dimensions to analyze the usefulness of Web 2.0 platforms as PLEs

Denis Gillet, Stéphane Sire, Evgeny Bogdanov

The trends in web development of educational applications and of Web 2.0 or social applications are converging. Platforms are designed to host a variety of software components (called widgets or plugins), which can be organised or combined (mashed-up) at u ...

2011

Modeling and Understanding Communities in Online Social Media using Probabilistic Methods

Radu Andrei Negoescu

The amount of multimedia content is on a constant increase, and people interact with each other and with content on a daily basis through social media systems. The goal of this thesis was to model and understand emerging online communities that revolve aro ...

EPFL2011

Leveraging User-Generated Content for Information Discovery on the Web

Adriana Budura

The large-scale adoption of the Web 2.0 paradigm has revolutionized the way we interact with the Web today. End-users, so far mainly passive consumers of information are now becoming active information producers, creating, uploading, and commenting on all ...

EPFL2010

Modeling and Understanding Flickr Communities through Topic-based Analysis

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Radu Andrei Negoescu

With the increased presence of digital imaging devices there also came an explosion in the amount of multimedia content available online. Users have transformed from passive consumers of media into content creators and have started organizing themselves in ...

2010

Remote Experimentation Mashup

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

eLogbook is a new Web 2.0 social software framework developed in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) to provide collaborative Web services in an open academic environment for higher education. Several cross platform We ...

2009

Neighborhood-based Tag Prediction

Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Karl Aberer, Adriana Budura, Sebastian Michel

We consider the problem of tag prediction in collaborative tagging systems where users share and annotate resources on the Web. We put forward HAMLET, a novel approach to automatically propagate tags along the edges of a graph which relates similar documen ...

2009

Fuzzy Trust Aggregation And Personalized Trust Inference In Virtual Social Networks

Mohsen Lesani

Virtual marketplaces on the Web provide people with great facilities to buy and sell goods similar to conventional markets. In traditional business, reputation is subjectively built for known persons and companies as the deals are made in the course of tim ...

2009

From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and back - How did your Grandma use to tag?

Karl Aberer, Gleb Skobeltsyn, Adriana Budura, Sebastian Michel

We consider the applicability of terms extracted from anchortext as a source of Web page descriptions in the form of tags. With a relatively simple and easy-to-use method, we show that anchortext significantly overlaps with tags obtained from the popular t ...

2008

Sensor Metadata Management and its Application in Collaborative Environmental Research

Karl Aberer, Michael Lehning, Sebastian Michel

This paper considers metadata generation and tracking in a collaborative environment where users publish raw sensor data in the form of virtual sensors and post-process data by means of filtering, modeling, or query processing techniques. In the metadata s ...

2008