Abstract-The information era has brought with it the wellknown problem of 'Information Explosion'. There are many and varied search engines on the Internet but it is stil...
—Advertising has become an integral and inseparable part of the World Wide Web. However, neither public auditing nor monitoring mechanisms still exist in this emerging area. In t...
Yong Wang, Daniel Burgener, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic,...
Skyline queries have gained much attention as alternative query semantics with pros (e.g.low query formulation overhead) and cons (e.g.large control over result size). To overcome ...
Advances in hardware, storage, devices, connectivity, and web technology are changing the way applications are designed, deployed, and managed. Applications are increasingly becom...
The global inter-networking infrastructure that has become essential for contemporary day-to-day computing and communication tasks, has also enabled the deployment of several large...