Many Web services operate their own Web crawlers to discover data of interest, despite the fact that largescale, timely crawling is complex, operationally intensive, and expensive...
Jonathan M. Hsieh, Steven D. Gribble, Henry M. Lev...
Database applications and technologies are of central importance in many information systems a person may encounter. To obtain services, the end-users are required a smart card (pl...
Mining user preferences plays a critical role in many important applications such as customer relationship management (CRM), product and service recommendation, and marketing camp...
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Though skyline queries already have claimed their place in retrieval over central databases, their application in Web information systems up to now was impossible due to the distri...
The proliferation of mobile devices has given rise to novel user-centric applications and services. In current mobile systems, users gain access to remote servers over mobile netwo...