The pervasiveness of mobile devices and location based services is leading to an increasing volume of mobility data. This side effect provides the opportunity for innovative meth...
Anna Monreale, Fabio Pinelli, Roberto Trasarti, Fo...
Trust plays important roles in diverse decentralized environments, including our society at large. Computational trust models help to, for instance, guide users’ judgements in o...
Xin Liu, Anwitaman Datta, Krzysztof Rzadca, Ee-Pen...
Web search engines are often implemented as centralized systems. Designing and implementing a Web search engine in a distributed environment is a challenging engineering task that...
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Aristides Gionis, Flavio J...
Sets of named entities are used heavily at commercial search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing. Acquiring sets of entities typically consists of combining semi-supervised exp...
Wikipedia is the largest monolithic repository of human knowledge. In addition to its sheer size, it represents a new encyclopedic paradigm by interconnecting articles through hyp...