Despite the success of modern Web search engines, challenges remain when it comes to providing people with access to the right information at the right time. In this paper, we desc...
We propose STILL, a signature-free remote exploit binary code injection attack blocker to protect web servers and web applications. STILL is robust to almost all anti-signature, a...
Data fusion on the Web refers to the merging, into a unified single list, of the ranked document lists, which are retrieved in response to a user query by more than one Web search...
Passage retrieval and pseudo relevance feedback/query expansion have been reported as two effective means for improving document retrieval in literature. Relevance models, while im...
The quality of document content, which is an issue that is usually ignored for the traditional ad hoc retrieval task, is a critical issue for Web search. Web pages have a huge var...