The Web has plenty of reviews, comments and reports about products, services, government policies, institutions, etc. The opinions expressed in these reviews influence how people...
Eduard C. Dragut, Clement T. Yu, A. Prasad Sistla,...
This paper aims to detect users generating spam reviews or review spammers. We identify several characteristic behaviors of review spammers and model these behaviors so as to dete...
A typical collection of personal information contains many documents and mentions many concepts (e.g., person names, events, etc.). In this environment, associative browsing betwe...
Jinyoung Kim, Anton Bakalov, David A. Smith, W. Br...
—We study the problem of scheduling periodic real-time tasks which have individual minimum reward requirements. We consider situations where tasks generate jobs that can be provi...
In recent years, extensive research has been conducted in the area of Service Level Agreement (SLA) for utility computing systems. An SLA is a formal contract used to guarantee th...