--The vast amounts of data about people, things and the environment will require new ways of handling, searching and presenting information. New applications will increasingly be a...
Ad-hoc data processing has proven to be a critical paradigm for Internet companies processing large volumes of unstructured data. However, the emergence of cloud-based computing, ...
Search engine result pages (SERPs) are known as the most expensive real estate on the planet. Most queries yield millions of organic search results, yet searchers seldom look beyon...
Web image search is inspired by text search techniques; it mainly relies on indexing textual data that surround the image file. But retrieval results are often noisy and image pro...
Wikis are social web sites enabling a potentially large number of participants to modify any page or create a new page using their web browser. As they grow, wikis may suffer from...