Theoretical analysis of the Web graph is often used to improve the efficiency of search engines. The PageRank algorithm, proposed by [5], is used by the Google search engine [4] t...
Participation in the web of communities requires a common language, a common technological structure and development of content that is relevant and captivating. This paper report...
The Didactics of Informatics research group at the University of Paderborn is involved in efforts to design implement and evaluate a web-based learning laboratory for informatics ...
The vision of the Semantic Web is to reduce manual discovery and usage of Web resources (documents and services) and to allow software agents to automatically identify these Web r...
Yugyung Lee, Chintan Patel, Soon Ae Chun, James Ge...
The web graph follows the power law distribution and has a hierarchy structure. But neither the PageRank algorithm nor any of its improvements leverage these attributes. In this p...
Yizhou Lu, Benyu Zhang, Wensi Xi, Zheng Chen, Yi L...
We present an algorithm for updating the PageRank vector [1]. Due to the scale of the web, Google only updates its famous PageRank vector on a monthly basis. However, the Web chan...
Maximizing only the relevance between queries and documents will not satisfy users if they want the top search results to present a wide coverage of topics by a few representative...
Yi Liu, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Michael R. Lyu, W...
It is a tedious and cumbersome process to update directly a WML document for the wireless Web because its content composes of both data and presentation. Thus, XML is used to hand...