The ongoing rise of human computation as a means of solving computational problems has created an environment where human workers are often regarded as nameless, faceless computat...
Dwell time on Web pages has been extensively used for various information retrieval tasks. However, some basic yet important questions have not been sufficiently addressed, e.g., ...
This chapter discusses content-based recommendation systems, i.e., systems that recommend an item to a user based upon a description of the item and a profile of the user’s inter...
Traditionally, cellular wide area networks like UMTS are used as Internet access networks for particular users but, in some cases, they can be employed to provide Internet access ...
Xavier Sanchez-Loro, Victoria Beltran, Jordi Casad...
As a result of the anonymity in todays Web search, it is not possible to receive a personalized search result. Neither prior search results nor search results from other users are ...