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SDM
2009
SIAM
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14 years 6 months ago
Providing Privacy through Plausibly Deniable Search.
Query-based web search is an integral part of many people’s daily activities. Most do not realize that their search history can be used to identify them (and their interests). I...
Chris Clifton, Mummoorthy Murugesan
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Risk-Aware Information Retrieval
Probabilistic retrieval models usually rank documents based on a scalar quantity. However, such models lack any estimate for the uncertainty associated with a document’s rank. Fu...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Michael J. Taylor, Ingemar ...
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Topic-Based Measure of Resource Description Quality for Distributed Information Retrieval
The aim of query-based sampling is to obtain a sufficient, representative sample of an underlying (text) collection. Current measures for assessing sample quality are too coarse gr...
Mark Baillie, Mark James Carman, Fabio Crestani
HYPERTEXT
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The dynamics of personal territories on the web
In this paper, we present a long-term study of user-centric Web traffic data collected in 2000-2002 and 2005-2006 from two large representative panels of French Internet users. Ou...
Thomas Beauvisage
ICWS
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Policy-Based Middleware for Web Services SLA Negotiation
Negotiation of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) is very important for maintaining Quality of Service (QoS) of composite Web services-based business processes. The process of negoti...
Farhana H. Zulkernine, Patrick Martin, Chris Cradd...