The Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P), developed by the W3C, provides an XML-based language for websites to encode their datacollection and data-use practices in a machine-re...
Recently the concept of a clarity score was introduced in order to measure the ambiguity of a query in relation to the collection in which the query issuer is seeking information ...
Abstract. A long-running transaction is an interactive component of a distributed system which must be executed as if it were a single atomic action. In principle, it should not be...
The Google search engine uses a method called PageRank, together with term-based and other ranking techniques, to order search results returned to the user. PageRank uses link ana...
Our work is motivated by the problem of ranking hyperlinked documents for a given query. Given an arbitrary directed graph with edge and node labels, we present a new flow-based ...