In this paper, we define and study a novel search problem: Comparative Web Search (CWS). The task of CWS is to seek relevant and comparative information from the Web to help users...
Hypothesis generation is a crucial initial step for making scientific discoveries. This paper addresses the problem of automatically discovering interesting hypotheses from the we...
Cloaking is a common “bait-and-switch” technique used to hide the true nature of a Web site by delivering blatantly different semantic content to different user segments. It i...
Although relevance feedback has been extensively studied in content-based image retrieval in the academic area, no commercial web image search engine has employed the idea. There ...
En Cheng, Feng Jing, Mingjing Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Hai...
Component Based Development (CBD) aims at constructing software through the integration, using interfaces and contracts, between pre-existing components. The main goal of this wor...
Robson P. de Souza, Marcelo N. Costa, Regina M. M....