We investigate the subtle cues to user identity that may be exploited in attacks on the privacy of users in web search query logs. We study the application of simple classifiers ...
When we want information on current events, we often view news programs on TV or news streams on Web sites. A news video stream consists of several scenes, and viewers often gain ...
Result merging is a key component in a metasearch engine. Once the results from various search engines are collected, the metasearch system merges them into a single ranked list. T...
Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement T. Yu,...
Engineering design search and optimisation is a computationally expensive and data intensive process. Grid technology offers great potential to increase the efficiency of this proc...
Jasmin L. Wason, Marc Molinari, Zhuoan Jiao, Simon...
There has been a great amount of work on query-independent summarization of documents. However, due to the success of Web search engines query-specific document summarization (que...