—The efficiency of BitTorrent for file sharing has inspired a number of BitTorrent-based P2P protocols for Videoon-Demand (VoD). It has been shown that these systems are scalab...
Sponsored search is one of the enabling technologies for today's Web search engines. It corresponds to matching and showing ads related to the user query on the search engine...
We describe a method for improving the precision of metasearch results based upon scoring the visual features of documents' surrogate representations. These surrogate scores ...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Ophir Frieder, ...
Aggregated search is the task of blending results from specialized search services or verticals into the Web search results. While many studies have focused on aggregated search t...
Understanding goals and preferences behind a user's online activities can greatly help information providers, such as search engine and E-Commerce web sites, to personalize c...
Honghua (Kathy) Dai, Lingzhi Zhao, Zaiqing Nie, Ji...