In this paper we introduce Ant-Q, a family of algorithms which present many similarities with Q-learning (Watkins, 1989), and which we apply to the solution of symmetric and asymm...
We consider the budget-constrained bidding optimization problem for sponsored search auctions, and model it as an online (multiple-choice) knapsack problem. We design both determi...
Yunhong Zhou, Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Rajan M. Luko...
Phishing is a significant problem involving fraudulent email and web sites that trick unsuspecting users into revealing private information. In this paper, we present the design, ...
Jason I. Hong, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Yue Zhang 0002
Expanding a seed set into a larger community is a common procedure in link-based analysis. We show how to adapt recent results from theoretical computer science to expand a seed s...
In this paper, we continue our investigations of "web spam": the injection of artificially-created pages into the web in order to influence the results from search engin...
Alexandros Ntoulas, Marc Najork, Mark Manasse, Den...