Data-centric business applications comprise an important class of distributed systems that includes on-line stores, document management systems, and patient portals. However, their...
Implicit user feedback, including click-through and subsequent browsing behavior, is crucial for evaluating and improving the quality of results returned by search engines. Severa...
Online social networks (OSNs) have experienced tremendous growth in recent years and become a de facto portal for hundreds of millions of Internet users. These OSNs offer attractiv...
Online reviews in which users publish detailed commentary about their experiences and opinions with products, services, or events are extremely valuable to users who rely on them ...
Abstract. Current data-intensive Web applications, such as on-line trading, ecommerce, corporate portals and so on, are becoming more and more complex, both in terms of density of ...