Autonomics or self-reorganization becomes pertinent for websites serving a large number of users with highly varying workloads. An important component of self-adaptation is to mod...
We describe a framework of bootstrapped hypothesis testing for estimating the confidence in one web search engine outperforming another over any randomly sampled query set of a gi...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, Ophir Frieder, ...
Security is one of the major concerns when developing missioncritical business applications, and this concern motivated the Web Services Security specifications. However, the exis...
A staggering number of multimedia applications are being introduced every day. Yet, the inordinate delays encountered in retrieving multimedia documents make it difficult to use t...
Two exploratory studies examined the relationships among web navigation metrics, measures of lostness, and success on web navigation tasks. The web metrics were based on counts of...
Web pages contain clutter (such as ads, unnecessary images and extraneous links) around the body of an article, which distracts a user from actual content. Extraction of "use...
In this short paper we introduce Helios, a flexible and efficient open source meta-search engine. Helios currently runs on the top of 16 search engines (in Web, Books, News, and A...
Today, news browsing and searching is one of the most important Internet activity. This paper introduces a general framework to build a News search engine by describing Velthune, ...