We briefly survey several privacy compromises in published datasets, some historical and some on paper. An inspection of these suggests that the problem lies with the nature of the...
In the classic Bayesian restless multi-armed bandit (RMAB) problem, there are N arms, with rewards on all arms evolving at each time as Markov chains with known parameters. A play...
Wenhan Dai, Yi Gai, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Qing Z...
Giving suggestions to users of Web-based services is a common practice aimed at enhancing their navigation experience. Major Web Search Engines usually provide Suggestions under t...
Ranieri Baraglia, Fidel Cacheda, Victor Carneiro, ...
A large and growing number of web pages display contextual advertising based on keywords automatically extracted from the text of the page, and this is a substantial source of rev...
The crawler engines of today cannot reach most of the information contained in the Web. A great amount of valuable information is "hidden" behind the query forms of onli...