Skewed distributions appear very often in practice. Unfortunately, the traditional Zipf distribution often fails to model them well. In this paper, we propose a new probability di...
In information retrieval, relevance of documents with respect to queries is usually judged by humans, and used in evaluation and/or learning of ranking functions. Previous work ha...
Jingfang Xu, Chuanliang Chen, Gu Xu, Hang Li, Elbi...
Over the last few years, social network systems have greatly increased users’ involvement in online content creation and annotation. Since such systems usually need to deal with...
Ivan Ivanov, Peter Vajda, Lutz Goldmann, Jong-Seok...
Various low-latency anonymous communication systems such as Tor and Anoymizer have been designed to provide anonymity service for users. In order to hide the communication of user...
Large-scale distributed systems have dense, complex code-bases that are assumed to perform multiple and inter-dependent tasks while user interaction is present. The way users inte...
Angelos Stavrou, Gabriela F. Cretu-Ciocarlie, Mich...