Social network services have become a viable source of information for users. In Twitter, information deemed important by the community propagates through retweets. Studying the c...
Data about everything is readily available on the web—but often only accessible through elaborate user interactions. For automated decision support, extracting that data is esse...
Andrew Jon Sellers, Tim Furche, Georg Gottlob, Gio...
Running in a highly uncertain and changing environment, Web systems cannot always provide full set of services with optimal quality, especially when the workload is high or failur...
We demonstrate Factal—a system for integrating deep web sources. Factal is based on the recently introduced source selection method SourceRank; which is a measure of trust and r...
Abstract. As comparatively powerful mobile computing devices are becoming more common, mobile web applications have started gaining in popularity. In this paper we present an appro...
We demonstrate Blognoon, a semantic blog search engine with the focus on topic exploration and navigation. Blognoon provides concept search instead of traditional keywords search ...
Maria P. Grineva, Maxim Grinev, Dmitry Lizorkin, A...
Social news websites have gained significant popularity over the last few years. The participants of such websites are not only allowed to share news links but also to annotate, ...
With the rapid rise in the popularity of social media (500M+ Facebook users, 100M+ twitter users), and near ubiquitous mobile access (4.1 billion actively-used mobile phones), the...
Meenakshi Nagarajan, Amit P. Sheth, Selvam Velmuru...
Providers such as YouTube offer easy access to multimedia content to millions, generating high bandwidth and storage demand on the Content Delivery Networks they rely upon. More ...
In commerce search, the set of products returned by a search engine often forms the basis for all user interactions leading up to a potential transaction on the web. Such a set of...