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Building blocks for commodity augmented reality-based molecular visualization and modeling in web browsers

For years, immersive interfaces using virtual and augmented reality (AR) for molecular visualization and modeling have promised a revolution in the way how we teach, learn, communicate and work in chemistry, structural biology and related areas. However, m ...

2020

Visual prominence vs architectural sensitivity of solar applications in existing urban areas: an experience with web-shared photos

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Andreas Schueler, Maria Cristina Munari Probst, Pietro Florio

Architectural integration of solar technologies in the built environment is a challenge: one of the key tasks is the identification of homogeneous zones of intervention as a function of the solar energy potential and “criticity”, a combination of the socio ...

Elsevier2017

Towards a highly effective and robust Web credibility evaluation system

Karl Aberer, Xin Liu

By leveraging crowdsourcing, Web credibility evaluation systems (WCESs) have become a promising tool to assess the credibility of Web content, e.g., Web pages. However, existing systems adopt a passive Way to collect users' credibility ratings, which incur ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

MARKDOWN

Nicolas Borboën

Français: Markdown est un langage de balisage léger qui permet d’écrire simplement du texte et de le convertir en code HTML pour sa publication sur un site web. Facile à lire, facile à écrire. English: Markdown is a small markup language that allows you to ...

2013

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

The gist of everything new: personalized top-k processing over web 2.0 streams

Karl Aberer, Sebastian Michel, Parisa Haghani

Web 2.0 portals have made content generation easier than ever with millions of users contributing news stories in form of posts in weblogs or short textual snippets as in Twitter. Efficient and effective filtering solutions are key to allow users stay tune ...

ACM2010

Efficient Processing of Ranking Queries in Novel Applications

Parisa Haghani

Ranking queries, which return only a subset of results matching a user query, have been studied extensively in the past decade due to their importance in a wide range of applications. In this thesis, we study ranking queries in novel environments and setti ...

EPFL2010

Purely URL-based Topic Classification

Monika Henzinger

Given only the URL of a web page, can we identify its topic? This is the question that we examine in this paper. Usually, web pages are classified using their content, but a URL-only classifier is preferable, (i) when speed is crucial, (ii) to enable conte ...

2009

Understanding the Web

The World Wide Web is one of the most widely used information resources. Understanding the web better will enable us to benefit more of it. In this thesis we develop techniques to learn the properties of the web pages like language and topic using only the ...

EPFL2009

Towards Privacy-Friendly Online Advertising

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Julien Freudiger, Nevena Vratonjic

Modern web sites commonly interact with third-party domains to integrate advertisements and generate revenue from them. To improve the relevance of advertisement, online advertisers track user activities online with third- party cookies. However, excessive ...

2009

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

Karl Aberer, Sebastian Michel, Gleb Skobeltsyn, Adriana Budura

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