The ranking function used by search engines to order results is learned from labeled training data. Each training point is a (query, URL) pair that is labeled by a human judge who...
Rakesh Agrawal, Alan Halverson, Krishnaram Kenthap...
Spammers in social bookmarking systems try to mimick bookmarking behaviour of real users to gain the attention of other users or search engines. Several methods have been proposed...
The connected facility location (ConFL) problem generalizes the facility location problem and the Steiner tree problem in graphs. Given a graph G = (V, E), a set of customers D ⊆...
Link Analysis has shown great potential in improving the performance of web search. PageRank and HITS are two of the most popular algorithms. Most of the existing link analysis al...
— In recent years, the research community introduced various methods for processing skyline queries in multidimensional databases. The skyline operator retrieves all objects bein...