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2005
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PageRank as a function of the damping factor
PageRank is defined as the stationary state of a Markov chain. The chain is obtained by perturbing the transition matrix induced by a web graph with a damping factor that spreads...
Paolo Boldi, Massimo Santini, Sebastiano Vigna
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2005
ACM
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Ensuring required failure atomicity of composite Web services
The recent evolution of Internet, driven by the Web services technology, is extending the role of the Web from a support of information interaction to a middleware for B2B interac...
Sami Bhiri, Olivier Perrin, Claude Godart
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2005
ACM
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Web service interfaces
We present a language for specifying web service interfaces. A web service interface puts three kinds of constraints on the users of the service. First, the interface specifies th...
Dirk Beyer, Arindam Chakrabarti, Thomas A. Henzing...
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2005
ACM
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Expressiveness of XSDs: from practice to theory, there and back again
On an abstract level, XML Schema increases the limited expressive power of Document Type Definitions (DTDs) by extending them with a recursive typing mechanism. However, an invest...
Geert Jan Bex, Wim Martens, Frank Neven, Thomas Sc...
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2005
ACM
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Design for verification for asynchronously communicating Web services
We present a design for verification approach to developing reliable web services. We focus on composite web services which consist of asynchronously communicating peers. Our goal...
Aysu Betin-Can, Tevfik Bultan, Xiang Fu
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2005
ACM
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SemRank: ranking complex relationship search results on the semantic web
While the idea that querying mechanisms for complex relationships (otherwise known as Semantic Associations) should be integral to Semantic Web search technologies has recently ga...
Kemafor Anyanwu, Angela Maduko, Amit P. Sheth
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2005
ACM
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Sampling search-engine results
We consider the problem of efficiently sampling Web search engine query results. In turn, using a small random sample instead of the full set of results leads to efficient approxi...
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Andrei Z. Broder, David Carm...
WWW
2005
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
Disambiguating Web appearances of people in a social network
Say you are looking for information about a particular person. A search engine returns many pages for that person's name but which pages are about the person you care about, ...
Ron Bekkerman, Andrew McCallum
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2005
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
LSH forest: self-tuning indexes for similarity search
We consider the problem of indexing high-dimensional data for answering (approximate) similarity-search queries. Similarity indexes prove to be important in a wide variety of sett...
Mayank Bawa, Tyson Condie, Prasanna Ganesan
WWW
2005
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
A service creation environment based on end to end composition of Web services
The demand for quickly delivering new applications is increasingly becoming a business imperative today. Application development is often done in an ad hoc manner, without standar...
Vikas Agarwal, Koustuv Dasgupta, Neeran M. Karnik,...