We present a variant of PageRank, WLRank, that considers different Web page attributes to give more weight to some links, improving the precision of the answers. Categories and Su...
In recent years, search engine research has grown rapidly in areas such as algorithms, strategies and architecture, increasing both effectiveness and quality of results. However, ...
Patrizia Andronico, Marina Buzzi, Barbara Leporini
The Visual Software Circuit Board (VSCB) platform supports a component based development methodology towards the development of software systems. The circuit board design techniqu...
In the past few years, web usage mining techniques have grown rapidly together with the explosive growth of the web, both in the research and commercial areas. In this work we pre...
Massimiliano Albanese, Antonio Picariello, Carlo S...
In ongoing research, a collaborative peer network application is being proposed to address the scalability limitations of centralized search engines. Here we introduce a local ada...
Enterprises today wish to manage their IT resources so as to optimize business objectives, such as income, rather than IT metrics, such as response times. Therefore, we introduce ...
Defining dependency models is sometimes an easier, more intuitive way for ontology representation than defining reactive rectly, as it provides a higher level of abstraction. We w...
The enormity and rapid growth of the web-graph forces quantities such as its pagerank to be computed under missing information consisting of outlinks of pages that have not yet be...
The number of Web blogs is growing extremely fast, thus this phenomenon cannot be ignored. This paper discusses the issue through monitoring a set of blogs for a two months period...