Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Online news reading has become very popular as the web provides access to news articles from millions of sources around the world. A key challenge of news websites is to help user...
Current computer security systems are based on the premise that once a user presents valid credentials to the authentication system (e.g. valid ID and password), they are granted ...
Web applications can be classified as hybrids between hypermedia and information systems. They have a relatively simple distributed architecture from the user viewpoint, but a comp...
Demographic information plays an important role in gaining valuable insights about a web-site's user-base and is used extensively to target online advertisements and promotion...