Abstract--To make sure they can quickly respond to a specific query, the main search engines have several mechanisms. One of them consists in ranking web pages according to their i...
The ambiguity of person names in the Web has become a new area of interest for NLP researchers. This challenging problem has been formulated as the task of clustering Web search r...
We study the problem of automatically identifying“hotspots” on the real-time web. Concretely, we propose to identify highly-dynamic ad-hoc collections of users – what we ref...
Performing QoS (Quality of Service) control in large computing systems requires an on line metric that is representative of the real state of the system. The Tardiness Quantile Me...
Luciano Bertini, Julius C. B. Leite, Daniel Moss&e...
Web browsing is a very common way of using the Internet to, among others, read news, do on-line shopping, or search for user generated content such as YouTube or Dailymotion. Tradi...