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...
Abstract. Feature Extraction, also known as Multidimensional Scaling, is a basic primitive associated with indexing, clustering, nearest neighbor searching and visualization. We co...
Prior work has shown that combining results of various retrieval approaches and query representations can improve search effectiveness. Today, many meta-search engines exist which...
M. Catherine McCabe, Abdur Chowdhury, David A. Gro...
We propose a dynamic faceted search system for discoverydriven analysis on data with both textual content and structured attributes. From a keyword query, we want to dynamically s...
Debabrata Dash, Jun Rao, Nimrod Megiddo, Anastasia...
Overlay networks have received a lot of attention due to the recent wide-spread use of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications such as SETI, Napster, Gnutella, and Morpheus. Through repli...